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- Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
- There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves.…
- Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
- Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
- The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems…
- How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always…
- O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle…
- Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
- Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
- If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left…
- Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
- You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in…
- Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up…
- We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm…
- Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way…
- Our moat around us is no more a moat, Our continent no more a moated castle.
- Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can…
- The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
- The mountain pushed us off her knees. And now her lap is full of trees.
- I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once…
- Tis of the essence of life here, Though we choose greatly, still to lack The lasting memory at all clear, That life has for us…
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