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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

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Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.

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The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

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Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

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MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

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The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

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God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

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Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.

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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

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Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot -- For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more --

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

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Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.

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I have an appetite for silence.

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