In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.
Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Let all your thinks be thanks.
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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