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Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.
Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.
Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.
Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape.
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.
Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.
This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.
Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.
God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.
Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.