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This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First --Chill --then Stupor --then the letting go --.


Emily Dickinson

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Green to go
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And if to...
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then the prayers are spoken.
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th...
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Her hardest hue to hold.
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Then you should see my heart.
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A bad dream.

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I am born as the sun,
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If you are in an impossible situation.

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First, Comp...
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When the evening is splayed out across the sky
[...]
Pat...
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Then change yourself first.
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The next year, the nex...
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When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like...
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O...
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In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
T...
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without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill ALLEN GINSBERG I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Then
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If they don't,
why don't I?

Because....
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Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hou...
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this wall has to be..
KNOCKED DOWN!!
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always
because it promises
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My favo...
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for if dreams die
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in constant fear
then we might miss
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r...
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the first time she's seen sun
after a decade of winters.
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What if I am the outsider to my friends and family?...
QUETZAL Time is expensive !
Then why it is free for many ??
Time is a gift !
Then why preciou...
ASHA BHOJANI A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

If t...
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By my own inability to grasp the extent of ...
IBN JUZAYY AL-KALBI I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are...
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Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the housetops, over th...
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Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player."
That isn't fiddle...
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Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
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Take it from my hands
'Cause I can't do this on my own
I'm lett...
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If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.
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That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
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J.K. ROWLING Pirate Captain Jim
"Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim
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If you want to feel old...then it's blue rins...
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Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
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May look wrinkled and wet
And withered, and white as the snow,
...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Maturity

A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body g...
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But if we choose to ignore it, then...
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no sleep without dreams of love-
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Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent
Then gastly haun...
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Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
Pursue her...
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Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
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And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till...
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but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,<...
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of a sunset at sea,
and the chill of the breeze
coming in with the...
R.C. GIBBONS If Under fell, if Over leaped,
If death was life and Death life reaped,
Something rises fr...
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pathetic failure ...
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because then it�...
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Is the mockery of despair.
For when it is final,
Who then will...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty...
E.E. CUMMINGS In the town of The Pas, Manitoba
It snows on the first of Octoba
From then, for six months, ANON. you've got to burn
straight up and down
and then maybe sidewise
for a while
and ...
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The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And ea...
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And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till...
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If I can ease one life th...
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It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A th...
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EMILY DICKINSON There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.
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EMILY DICKINSON Water is taught by thirst.
EMILY DICKINSON To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
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EMILY DICKINSON The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to...
EMILY DICKINSON I felt it shelter to speak to you.
EMILY DICKINSON Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hope...
EMILY DICKINSON Our journey has advanced; / Our feet were almost come / To that odd fork in Being's road,/ Eternity ...
EMILY DICKINSON I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy; ...
EMILY DICKINSON He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He s...
EMILY DICKINSON Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
...
EMILY DICKINSON A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.
EMILY DICKINSON Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
EMILY DICKINSON That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
EMILY DICKINSON Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, a...
EMILY DICKINSON Todo lo que sabemos del amor es que el amor es todo lo que hay.
EMILY DICKINSON We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like cost...
EMILY DICKINSON We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
EMILY DICKINSON The distance that the dead have gone/ Does not at first appear --/ Their coming back seems possible/...
EMILY DICKINSON If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I...
EMILY DICKINSON Remorse --is Memory --awake --/ Her Parties all astir --/ A Presence of Departed Acts --/ At window ...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON I must go in, the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And...
EMILY DICKINSON Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity
EMILY DICKINSON