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Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.
Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.
There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now
the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.
Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.
The night comes stealing o'er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.
The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.
The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.
Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
When you would think, "what was the use of it," you'll remember something you can't grasp and you'll wonder what it was.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]