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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.
Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.
The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.
A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.
Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.
Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.
It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.