wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness
You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
Donald Trump always puts himself first. He built a business career, in the words of one of his own campaign staffers, "off the backs of the little guy. " And as a candidate, he started his campaign with a speech where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals, and he has pursued the discredited and really outrageous lie that President Obama wasn't born in the United States. It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.