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What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!
'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?
My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.
And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!
I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.
I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.
The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.
O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate