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I have stopped being a misanthrope.
Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.
Death is a name for beauty not in use.
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?
Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
And me happiest when I compose poems:
Love, power, the huzza of battle
are something, are much:
yet a poem includes them like a pool
water and reflection.
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.
