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Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
Source: The Paradox of...
For I respectfully decline
To dignify the Serpentine,
And make hors-d' uvres for...
And I wove the thing to a random rhyme,
For the Rose is Beauty, the Gardener, Time.
I intended an Ode,
And it turned to a Sonnet.
Source: Rose Leaves.
-- Austin...
All passes. Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The bust outlasts the throne
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves...
And moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly), Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources....
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At...
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it...
Death is the privilege of human nature,
And life without it were not worth our taking.
Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Source: The Fair Penitent, V. i.
--...
Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy when they love?
Guilt is the source of sorrow,
'tis the fiend,/Th' avenging fiend,
that follows us behind
With whips and...
As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,
And none could be unhappy but the great.
Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had...
Now I don't know which way to be. Absent-minded or respectful.
Source: In Webster's...
Latin America is very fond of the word hope. We like to be called the continent of hope. Candidates for deputy,...
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like...
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the...