A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.
Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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