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"Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness."
"Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity."
"Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?"
"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"
"For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth."
"If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one."
"I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow."
"If it were not for guests all houses would be graves."
"Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest."
"I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon."
"The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons."
"Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells."
"Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate."
"And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees."
"For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly."
"I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes."
"He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it."
"You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun."
"Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born."
"I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure.""