Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
What can be explained is not poetry.
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
Everything in nature is resurrection.
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
Though leaves are many, the root is one.
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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