Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

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Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.