Occupation: Poet Birth: April 23, 1852 Death: March 7, 1940
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy..
Choices are the hinges of destiny..
It is better to rust out than wear out..
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the ….
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels unti….
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out..
Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know..
No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left..
Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest now, old friend; be not afraid. But think no….
I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine..
At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central calm: So here in the roar of mortal thing….
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life..
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life..
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy..
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the ….
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul..
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own..
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dr….
In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man..
There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he fi….
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new bea….