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You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.
Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.
To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.
The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.
The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.
The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.
A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.
We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged
If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.
Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.
For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.
Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.