So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White
Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.
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We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.
When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.
To fear death is to misunderstand life.
Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes.
Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.
It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable.
God's retirement plan is out of this world
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.
A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.
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Leslie Hochsztein
Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran
If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.
Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.
If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below.
O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin
Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce
A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.
If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement.
The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.
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