Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Death's in the good-bye.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Need is not quite belief.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

Be careful of words they can be both daisies and bruises.

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

It doesnt matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was.

It doesnt matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.

Depression is boring I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea a boat that floats home or does not.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

A starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out

It is love that walks away and yet we have terrible mouths and soft milk hands. We worry with like. We walk away like love.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

We're about moderation.

Moderation in all things.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.