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- Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the…
- What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's…
- Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to…
- I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be…
- If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?
- One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men…
- I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in…
- We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for…
- Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade...
- Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than…
- I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed…
- One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
- The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent…
- If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after…
- We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or…
- I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and…
- Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all…
- We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
- but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to…
- Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have…
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