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I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.
Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls
When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.
Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.
I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.
I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.
I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.
A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.
People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.