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Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.
I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.
'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.
I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.
I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.
It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.
I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed
The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.
Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.
The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.
Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!
Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.
The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.
Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.