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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
Oh! where does faithful Gélert roam, The flow'r of all his race? So true, so brave; a lamb at home, A lion in the chase.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.
All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.
Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.
My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.
I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.