In the sun and in the rain, in the day and in the night, pain is a flower, pain is flowers, blooming all the time.
People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them.
We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.
Your poems about the girls will still be around 50 years from now when the girls are gone, my editor phones me.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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