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Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
Source: The Relapse,...
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
Source: In...
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays...
For lust of knowing what should not be known,
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die,
We poets of the proud...
What would ye, ladies? It was ever thus.
Men are unwise and curiously planned.
Half to forget the wandering and pain,
Half to remember days that have gone by,
And dream and dream that I am...
In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Source:...
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the...
I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth . . . certainly greater than sex,...
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Source: In
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a...
A language . . . is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Source: In...
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the...
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice....