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“Then since we mortal lovers are,Ask not how long our love may last;But while it does, let us take careEach minute be with pleasure passed:Were it not madness to denyTo live because we're sure to die?”
“Some say that happy women are immaterial.”
“To-day I shall be strong,No more shall yield to wrong,Shall squander life no more;Days lost, I know not how,I shall retrieve them now;Now I shall keep the vowI never kept before.”
“Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.”
“The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more”
“Is this what I am doing now?Watching the currents, passagesof life around me.I am not looking for books to explainmore with their words, butlistening to poets with their imagery, symbols, listening...”
“I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.”
“Living things don't all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light: a silver leaflike a path no one can use, a shallowlake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.But yo...”
“Lets only care about the place where we are.Theres beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.If theres someone beyond the curve in the road,Let them worry about whats past the curve in the ...”
“Winning is a matter of endurance. As long as you don't quit, you will win!”
“Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.”
“I eat you, life; you make me living eat.”
“I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.”
“Dogs speak words, but only poets and children Hear.”
“There is something to be said for rain, the sharing of an intimate caress with the leaves, blades of grass and all the living and the dead creatures to remind us we are connected.~Lyn Crain”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“Let me take you to the places you don't want to go.Let me thrill you and kill you and create you and make you.Let me rape your soul and destroy what you had been. Let me see you transformed into so...”
“When she transformed into a butterfly,the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness.They wanted her to change back into what she always had been.But she had wings.”
“We can only trust God to change hearts and lives, and let Him use us to stand up for Him, and to love the hurting.”
“To hold the courage to let another witness our tears, while refuting fears invitation to shield face, is to grant the most privileged of all loving intimacies to them.”
