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Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.
I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.
When I was being bullied, I had to learn not to judge myself by the opinions of intolerant morons. Then I felt much better.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.
Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.
Gay People can’t do this. Women shouldn’t be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you’re attacking my rights.
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.
So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.
The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.