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These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”
When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.
In order to love life, I must love living and live love like losing it would look like I have no life left to live.
Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.
I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.
When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.
Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.
And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.
Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.