Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
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Insomnia, perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
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If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one, and the same goes for paintings.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
I knew that nothing stranger
had ever happened, that nothing
stranger could ever happen.
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Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?
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Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I was made at right angles to the world
and I see it so. I can only see it so.
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
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