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But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em,
there's times when they jes wont
come.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Dripping rain like golden honey-
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.

Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so ...

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.