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5714 Poet Quotes

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Know Little Pray Things
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

Afterwards First He Taught
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Greatest People Scholars Wisest
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Busier Busy He Man
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Time and tide wait for no man.
Man Tide Time Wait
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The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Crafts Learn Life Long
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Desire Forbid Something Thing
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By nature, men love newfangledness.

Love New Men Nature
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

Both He May Well
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Age Agree Chastity Filth
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Body Clean Fast Fat
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Be Brave Bed Brave Desire
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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

Love Drink Fix Coffee
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It was really a blessing. It helped even out the conditions across the course.

Really Helped Condition Across
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Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

Grandfather Space Mind Wife
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Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Walking Exact Spirit Humility
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Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place
Relation Natural Takes
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The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
Planet Best Stay Home
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Reading Kind Common Articulated
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Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

Thought Apprehension Touch
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!

Awareness Emptiness Heart Compassion
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True affluence is not needing anything

True Affluence Needing
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All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

Human Stupid Forgiven Right
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Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
Place Scale Measured Bodies
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Streams and mountains never stay the same.

Stream Mountain Stay Same
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Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

Today Plurality Human Life-style
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Wildness is not just the
Wilderness Preservation World
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You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

Want Victimized Lesser Talent
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Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Place Means Stored Myth
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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
Western Civilization Elders Books
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Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
Nature Appears Chaotic Complex
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Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.
Range Mountains Year After
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The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

Lessons Freedom Wild Etiquette
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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Mind Exhausted Image Invents
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Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Walking Adventure Medication Practice
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Terms Like That Humane
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Libraries Are The One
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.

The Truth Needs So
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

We Are Animals Born
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Wats Elections Both Are
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Surprising How Much Memory
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Kills You To Watch
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Few People Know Clearly
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Pain Reaches Heart Electrical
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

What Keeps You Going
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

People's Dreams Are Made
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The Very Least You
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

What You Loose Blindness
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it.

The House Important Thing
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Memory Is Complicated Thing
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