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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
Fear created the first gods in the world.
I've never met another man I'd rather be.
Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
No tribute is laid on castles in the air.
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
In a good play, everyone is in the right.
Failure is a greater teacher than success
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.
In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.
The classics can console. But not enough.
The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.
Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
A good poem is a contribution to reality.
Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.
After the first death, there is no other.
we're anything brighter than even the sun
The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
But times do change and move continually.
The noblest mind the best contentment has
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
And love is love in beggars and in kings.
And all may do what has by man been done.
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
By night an atheist half-believes in God.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
He fed his spirit with the bread of books
It's been a long time since I've been me.
To be understood is to prostitute oneself
I sorrow that all fair things must decay.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
Freedom can occur only through education.
Deep meaning lies often in childish play.
Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
A deep meaning often lies in old customs.
There's never a new fashion but it's old.