Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.
States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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