The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
All great things are done for their own sake.
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.
There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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