Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Related W.B. YEATS W.B. YEATS In Blackwater Woods MARY OLIVER W.B. YEATS MARY OLIVER KAMAND KOJOURI HEINRICH HEINE J.R.R. TOLKIEN CHARLES BUKOWSKI JOHN GREEN CHARLES BUKOWSKI ANON. KAMAND KOJOURI blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, BARBARA BLATNER SANHITA BARUAH MARY OLIVER STEPHEN SONDHEIM J.R.R. TOLKIEN I feel in every girl there is a spirit,ATTICUS PAUL MCCARTNEY ALFRED TENNYSON MARY OLIVER Respect the verbs in your life. JERRIANN WAYAHOWL LAW People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff... The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness. That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti... To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to... Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of... Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi... A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d... If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool. Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ... Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs. Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice. The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless. Friendship is love with understanding. So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan. Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li... Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts. We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example. Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good... The guilty catch themselves. Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it. Hate pollutes the mind. If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves. To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle. Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t... "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you." It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary. Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy. It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside. Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t... Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ... Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole. Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor. "What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i... It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice. Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words. Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason. Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses. Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u... Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they? A good laugh is sunshine in a house. When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are. One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ... No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous. Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break. The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re... Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand. Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about... Age withers only the outside. Where ambition ends happiness begins.
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To an Isle in the Water
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
In Blackwater Woods
Look, the trees
Let us go where skins are rainbows
In the marvellous month of May 
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
I have been
Let us go then, you and I,
you've got to burn
While walking in a toy store 
Exactly when will you give up?
Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
Roads Go Ever On
When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
to live in this world
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. 
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. 
[in the true mad north] of introspection,
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin... 
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did... 
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers... 
The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it. 
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn... 
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta... 
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to
it, if you throw your hear... 
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... 
Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u... 
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. 
Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da... 
Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt... 
He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u... 
Youth and patience are foreign to one another. 
Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last. 
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. 
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u... 
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. 
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ... 
Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We... 
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in... 
Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow. 
There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had bro... 
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, ... 
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear... 
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more sui... 
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been ... 
You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo... 
If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a lit... 