“If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.”
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Calm Quotes — page 174 of 276
“The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.”
“Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.”
“This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.”
“No sky is heavy if the heart be light”
“Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.”
“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep”
“The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.”
“Workout. Lead a balanced life and try to have fun. It's what you make it.”
“A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.”
“I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.”
“The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.”
“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.”
“I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.”
“Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.”
“To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.”
“Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.”
“The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.”
“. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.”
“I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.”