Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
We love the things we love for what they are.
The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew
... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Don't be agnostic - be something.
End is a gloomy word.
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.
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