It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES TREE HOUSE A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the le... SHEL SILVERSTEIN The secret of masonry is to keep a secret. JOSEPH SMITH, JR. My secret friend, Oh, take me to the river. My secret friend, So we can swim forever. İAMX The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shap... VERA NAZARIAN In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit decei... GEORGE GORDON BYRON The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered w... ANNA AKHMATOVA In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known... SRI CHINMOY Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling MARY OLIVER The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. VOLTAIRE The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. BRADLEY The secret of getting things done is to act! DANTE ALIGHIERI I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect. BARRY HUMPHRIES HIDEAWAY Preserve that secret, homey spot in your heart, as sanctuary TARA ESTACAAN A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is a panther poised in a cypress tree about ... JOY HARJO The others have made governments of this earth keep the secret of their existence. I wou... TOBA BETA The secret of life is not in the Die And Live, The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense... SUSHIL SINGH I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who... LISA LEE Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret' HAFIZ OF PERSIA The moment you say , , or , the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies b... ESTHER HICKS Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi... JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ... JAMES THURBER The secret tugs at my sleeve. A child looking for attention. It is not a big secret. ... ADELHEID MANEFELDT The wind sings of our nostalgia and the starry sky ignores our dreams. Each snow flake is... MARGOT BICKEL You still want that little secret to stay secret?” “You wouldn’t.” “... B.D. ROCA I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is... JOYCE KILMER My whole being is a dark chant that will carry you perpetuating you to the dawn of eternal... FOROUGH FARROKHZAD Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants a... E.E. CUMMINGS Forgotten Stars. Time in the Flame. Missing Shard. The Only Rain. Door of the Memory. Wave... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b... GARY F EVANS... I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.... PABLO NERUDA The secret of being a great actor is a love of food. YASH CHOPRA The secret of getting ahead is getting started. MARK TWAIN The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. HENNY YOUNGMAN The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. OTTO VON BISMARCK The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. MIKE MURDOCK To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success. ANNA PAVLOVA Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all. STEVEN TYLER Are you, are you Coming to the tree They strung up a man They say who murdered thr... SUZANNE COLLINS I THINK that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest <... JOYCE KILMER That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the en... MITCH ALBOM Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle PAUL CELAN You want to know the secret to raising good kids?” “What’s that? asked Thomas. “Hi... CHRIS NICOLAISEN My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, SHEL SILVERSTEIN Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if ANNA AKHMATOVA Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night. DEJAN STOJANOVIC Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. DENISE LEVERTOV You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ... JAY ASHER Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Ju... JOHN GREEN The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. JOHN C. MAXWELL Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for: If you are moving in the ... ABRAHAM HICKS it is to be savored like a seabreeze-whispered dream...in the mysterious blue ... SANOBER KHAN The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno... DANIEL GILBERT Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. HENRY FORD The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. HENRY COTTON Evening Solace The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sea... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Ancient whore secret: to give enjoyable head, enjoy giving head. ASA AKIRA I am walking down to the oak tree. And I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but I jump i... SANDRA HARNER The life spills over, some days. She cannot be at rest, Wishes she could explode ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER FORKED BRANCHES We grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the... SUZY KASSEM I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day I... ROBERT LOWELL We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. ROBERT FROST A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA Dear Jack, I love you, too. And I think I know the secret to a long and happy ... LISA KLEYPAS We watch a sunlight dust dance, and we try to be that lively, but nobody knows what musi... RUMI In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would ... MARY OLIVER We grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the same schools, Rode the same... SUZY KASSEM Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions wit... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Think the tree that bears nutrition: though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fr... KAMAND KOJOURI When We Two Parted When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-... GEORGE GORDON BYRON Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling... RUPERT BROOKE The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. HARVEY S. FIRESTONE I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their ... VERA NAZARIAN One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relin... VERA NAZARIAN Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their S... RUPERT BROOKE Every leaf on every tree And every drop of water in the sea Every grain of weathered sand JANN ARDEN Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. ... NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Of all my seeking this is all my gain: No agony of any mortal brain Shall wrest the secret... OMAR KHAYYáM So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you go... MITCH ALBOM Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size<... MAYA ANGELOU A secret is a strange thing. There are three kinds of secrets. One is the sort everyone k... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They drain you sometimes. They really do. "What's it all about then mate? What's the sec... KARL WIGGINS O Dionysus, we feel you near, stirring like molten lava under the ravaged earth, flow... EURIPIDES bookshops are time machines spaceships story-makers secret-keepers dragon-... JEN CAMPBELL She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been SARAH DESSEN Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat... WALT WHITMAN Oh, devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, Each drop... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of every... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield. LEFTY GOMEZ I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor. LUISE RAINER
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STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames.... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my nec... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make ... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN This has got to come to a screeching halt. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same ti... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... 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