Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage." Votes: 0
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. Votes: 0
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. Votes: 0
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. Votes: 0
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. Votes: 0
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage. Votes: 0
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. Votes: 0
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. Votes: 0
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. Votes: 0
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. Votes: 0
I shall always be a priest of love. Votes: 0
A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there. Votes: 0
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. Votes: 0
The living moment is everything. Votes: 0
The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. Votes: 0
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. Votes: 0
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. Votes: 0
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery Votes: 0
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place. Votes: 0
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them. Votes: 0
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? Votes: 0
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. Votes: 0
I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. Votes: 0
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower Votes: 0
We are so conceited and so unproud. Votes: 0
I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home! Votes: 0
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world. Votes: 0
Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness. Votes: 0
Man is a thought-adventurer. Votes: 0
... The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance ... Votes: 0
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really. Votes: 0
The goal is to know how not-to-know. Votes: 0
I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16. Votes: 0
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. Votes: 0
Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion. Votes: 0
The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. Votes: 0
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard. Votes: 0
You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits? Votes: 0
I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun. Votes: 0
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything. Votes: 0
Where sanity is there God is. Votes: 0
How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price? Votes: 0
While we live, let us live. Votes: 0
Love's a dog in a manger. Votes: 0