Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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.
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.
Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
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