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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
What cannot be said will be wept.
Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Time flies never to be recalled.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Much effort, much prosperity.
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.
The test of any man lies in action.
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.