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"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet."
"Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?"
"Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty."
"When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face."
"I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned."
"O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more."
"Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult."
"Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind."
"The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake."
"...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Beauty grown sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equal fate; And when at last defeated in His wars, They have gone down under the same white stars, We shall no longer hear the little cry Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die."
"Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun."
"I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away... and the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them."
"Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?"
"Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant."
"We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body."
"to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief."
"I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake."
"Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence."
"I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock."
"A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?"