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To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.
How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.
By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.
June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!
You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!
Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.
There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.
Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.
When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.
Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.