32 Quotes by Joaquin Miller

Let us go and talk with the poets. (on arriving in San Francisco)

The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book and creed, --/ A soul that has not learned to read.

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

The living grave of crime.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.

O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.