There never was a war that was not inward.
There never was a war that was not inward.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
You know so many artists are fools.
anybody can write a book, 'cause everybody has a story to tell
What is the good of hypocrisy?
There never was a war that was not inward I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Superior people never make long visits.
Everything to do with love is mystery;
it is more than a day's work
to investigate this science.
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories