Poems List

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

To fail to plan is to plan to fail.

Streets full of water; please advise.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us—it simply reveals what we are made of already.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey.

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!!!

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.