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Who that hath ever been
Could bear to be no more?
Yet who would tread again the scene
He trod through life...
Return unto thy rest, my soul,
From all the wanderings of thy thought,
From sickness unto death made...
Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
Source: The World before the Flood,...
Labor, the symbol of man's punishment;
Labor, the secret of man's happiness.
Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other...
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
Source: In
I understand your new play is full of single entendres.
Source: Remark to Howard...
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
I thought the play was frightful but I saw it under particularly unfortunate circumstances. The curtain was...
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can...
The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings
The happy earth looks at the sky
And...
It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm...
For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable...
There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the...
[He] saw the light, and led the way
Where the gray world might greet the day.
Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . ....
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is...
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have...