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Revision is its own reward.
Omissions are not accidents.
The heart that gives, gathers.
All are / naked, none is safe.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
The mind is an enchanting thing.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
The hands are the heart's messengers.
Superior people never make long visits.
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
We prove, we do not explain, our birth.
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
The power of the visible is the invisible.
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
There never was a war that was not inward.
Excess is the common substitute for energy.
To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
... we do not admire what we cannot understand.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.