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Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.
It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.
God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.
One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.
We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, 'Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.'
It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages!
The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"
In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.
Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
Traveller, let your step be light, So that sleep these eyes may close, For poor Scarron, till to-night, Ne'er was able e'en to doze.
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.
Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied; "You need a heart.
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.
A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.
Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility.
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.
Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me.
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.