No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
I always entertain great hopes.
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Create and stir other people to create.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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 hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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 us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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