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And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
Let Allah will deal with the people who wronged you in this life, because too much hate will eventually consume you to
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.
He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.
All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.
Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!
I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.
I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?
Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.
My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."
In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.
The little things that you saw with a child’s eye and that will never go away. That’s what consciousness is all about.
I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.
The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void.
I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel
So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.
I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.
There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.
As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.