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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

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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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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

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As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.

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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

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You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

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Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

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To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

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Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

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So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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The Soul should always stand ajar.

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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

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How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?

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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away

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

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

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