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Quotes by Poet


"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

"A heart makes a good home for the friend."


"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."

"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass."
Will,

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry."

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."

"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."


"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."

"I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them."


"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."

"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."

"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."


"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."
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