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None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.
Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.
I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.
I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race
I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.
I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.
Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
We go in withering July To ply the hard incessant hoe; Panting beneath the brazen sky We sweat and grumble, but we go.
To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.
There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.
When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.
The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.
Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.
I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which came out in 1999. He's a poet I haven't tired of.
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
The benefit a father can confer on his son is to make him fit to occupy the front rank in the assembly of the learned.
Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.
The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.
Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.
'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.
O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.