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Quotes by Poet
"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
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"Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation."
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"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
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"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
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"What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others."
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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
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"Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent."
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"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
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"Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul."
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"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."
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"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."
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"If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable."
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"Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority."
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"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."
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"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
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"I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it."
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"As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further."
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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
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"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."
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"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."
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"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
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"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
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