More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild
Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.
The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.
A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
A drink centers me but I usually make myself wait until at least 9:00 PM for that. Or 8:00 PM. Whichever comes first.
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
Follow your dreams, make your best choices, and peace will come as you realize that you are on the best path for yourself.
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country
