Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
Deed done is well begun.
Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
These have not the hope to die.
I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
Honor is the greatest poet.
Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can’t go on together, let’s retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
Everywhere is here and every when is now.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow.
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.