Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.
I have miles to go before I sleep.
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
Men work together, whether they work together or apart.
If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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