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The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
Heed not the night; A summer lodge amid the wild is mine, 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'Tis mantled by the vine.
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
To see the Law by Christ fulfilled, And hear His pardoning voice Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice.
I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
The weary sun hath made a golden set And by the bright tract of his fiery car Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.
Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.
Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
Whatever be our individual, social or other interests, we should not forget that we have only one cosmic home, Earth.
We are all ONE, no matter in what form, space or time. As ONE we can change the world if we start changing ourselves.
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.
Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.
My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.
Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.