Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer
Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.
Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!
Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.
I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
Pain has an element of blank
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe
Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.
The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.
Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.
I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing...
Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon a Tree Equally plausibly, But Meat within, is requisite To Squirrels, and to Me
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe --
Ample make this bed. / Make this bed with awe; / In it wait till judgement break / Excellent and fair.