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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of...
The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.
Source: The...
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is...
Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair,...
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should...
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and...
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to...
In the world we live in. . . everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will...
Beauty sat with me all the summer day,
Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye;
Nor mark'd I till we parted, how,...
For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of...
When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.
The day begins to droop, -
Its course is done:
But nothing tells the place
Of the setting...
Masefield's sonnets? Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox'? Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer....
Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
Source: In The Book of Success, ed....
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Source: In
Long is the road from conception to completion.
Source: In Barnes & Noble Book of...
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Source: In Quotable Business,...
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.
Source: In The World's...