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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

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We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

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My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands

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But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

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A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

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The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

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I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

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The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.

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The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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