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Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.
Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?
Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.
I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.
H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.
Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.
I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.
Perhaps love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the bumpy ride worthwhile and provides a glorious destination.
How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?
I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.
'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.
In the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross.
I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.
The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.
If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.
While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.
Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.
But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.
Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.