So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.
-- Robert Frost
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Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But...
ROBERT FROST Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST So dawn goes down to day/ Nothing gold can stay.
ROBERT FROST So dawn does down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay.
JOHN GREEN And stay, my dear
stay...
forever, as my quiet song,
in my lilac dawn.
SANOBER KHAN Macon Ethan
I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived
because he had die...
KAMI GARCIA Nothing Gold Can Stay
ROBERT FROST A Prayer
Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goe...
EDWIN MARKHAM I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI You can learn things from a heart so bleeding
When love bargains with deceitful pleading
...
MUNIA KHAN All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is stro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Seventeen moons, seventeen years,
Eyes where Dark or Light appears,
Gold for yes and green...
KAMI GARCIA Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
JOHN GREEN The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY She’s a manner of speaking.
Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves.
The...
ALBERTO CAEIRO And from that time on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN WORLD EVERYTHING COST,
TIME IS THE THING WE LOST,
IN LIFE NEVER FEEL EXHAUST,
U CA...
MERLIN8THOMAS gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"
'Is there a chorus?'
"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' ...
TERRY PRATCHETT The mighty trojans fell, and so did i.
A wooden horse you were not, yet in a pool of my own blo...
ANURAG ANAND She was his dawn of bliss
He was her dusk of wounds,
Each day they came up to
See a...
TANYA GAMBHIR it is to be savored like a
seabreeze-whispered
dream...in the mysterious
blue ...
SANOBER KHAN Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
Yet our full-leaved willows are in the f...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Bring Down The Walls
I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will...
MUSE Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.
B...
VERA NAZARIAN Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost 1874–1963
Here come real stars to fill th...
ROBERT FROST It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."
"Don't be so superior. You can ne...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus ...
RICK RIORDAN – Here, take this. It'll give you a boost.
– You spent 90 gold on this??
– 90 gold...
CORY DOCTOROW Time
You were the one
I wanted most
to stay.
But time could not
LANG LEAV My beard grows down to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my b...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a vi...
ANNA AKHMATOVA NOTHING goes exactly as planned.
Make your OWN destiny
TATE HALLAWAY There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
No...
JOHN LENNON A poor old Widow in her weeds
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, an...
WALTER DE LA MARE RICHER THAN GOLD
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. STRICKLAND GILLILAN Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.
SARAH DESSEN Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.
SARAH DESSEN Green grass breaks through snow,
Artemis pleads for my help,
I am so cool.
RICK RIORDAN It all goes around
It all goes around
The planet goes around the sun
It all goes arou...
ANN LECKIE Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For
him, oblivio...
CARLTON MELLICK III Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging ...
ANNE SEXTON One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an ...
JOHN GREEN Closed eyes
can't sacrifice
a third time
i may never know
A dreamer's dream
GREG C WARNER All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life has so...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LOVE IS NOMADIC
AND I'M A GYPSY SOUL
SO LOVE GOES WHEREVER
I GO
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER We too can repair our cracks with gold
And glow again.
Crazed by life,
More beautiful...
SCOTT HASTIE Time is drowning,
Hearts are burning,
Heads are rolling,
Nothing can save you now, EMORY R. FRIE Frost’s face darkened. “What gives you the right to speak for Miss Hathaway and her family?” <...
LISA KLEYPAS Black for hunting through the night
For death and mourning the color's white
G...
CASSANDRA CLARE You were the one, I wanted most to stay.
But time could not be kept at bay.
T...
LANG LEAV We are seeing the early warnings of the dawn of international deflation, ... Gold prices are rising ...
JAMES DINES If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off so st...
THREE DAYS GRACE They took my books
because my message was love.
They took my pen
because my words wer...
KAMAND KOJOURI Weave the circle, tightly sewn,
Let nothing evil or unknown
Enter within. Stay without
YASMINE GALENORN they do not kiss
but they both want to
instead their feet touch and so do their arms
...
BRIGID LOWRY I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones EDGAR ALLAN POE I HOLD
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
COCO J. GINGER Can I stay with you?”
“Always.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Could I but acquaint the world with JOSEPH LEWIS Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while?
William: You can stay forever.
NOTTING HILL Jeff: I could go to New York if I wanted to, but what's the point? So I can learn how to order a cap...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so ...
T.S. ELIOT Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
JOHN DONNE Black for hunting through the night
For death and sorrow, the color’s white
Gold for a b...
CASSANDRA CLARE Every day of my life it feels as if I'm
fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down. COLLEEN HOOVER I know a way to stay friends forever,
There's really nothing to it,
I tell you what to do,...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I’m breaking
down
and I’ve
got so
little time
to
do it
PHIL VOLATILE My child, I know you're not a child
But I still see you running wild
Between those floweri...
ANTONIA MICHAELIS Violet
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CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not with Rob," I say quickly. "Not anymore."
"You're not?" He's staring at me so intensely...
LAUREN OLIVER Love has not a value,
though we treasure it dear,
it's worth more than gold,
that's w...
ANTHONY T HINCKS As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish...
HUGHES MEARNS As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today. <...
HUGHES MEARNS We ran as if to meet the moon.
ROBERT FROST Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we b...
NATALIE S. BOBER You can't be too wise
So open your eyes
Stay young at heart.
BILLY SQUIER I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -
There's really nothing to it.
I simply t...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Lesson 1: Don't trust anybody.
Lesson 2: Be confident.
Lesson 3: Nothing is ever what it s...
JACK HEATH When a man is in love
how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover ...
نزار قباني I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think
of the fire...
SANOBER KHAN Not so, not so, no load of woe
Need bring despairing frown;
For while we bear it, we can bea...
SARAH WILLIAMS And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green
And was the holy la...
WILLIAM BLAKE Their time past, pulled down
cracked and flung to the fire
go up in a roar
All recog...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Ansel: Is it on?
John: It is on.
Shailene: Ansel paints miniatures.
JOHN GREEN Build a house?" exclaimed John.
"For the Wendy," said Curly.
"For Wendy?" John...
J.M. BARRIE Ash, ash —-
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there——
A ca...
SYLVIA PLATH So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreat...
JOHN EDWARD MASEFIELD A Boat
O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
t...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. “If I wanted to lie on a couch and
complain to s...
CASSANDRA CLARE It's a heartache
Nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it's too late
Hits you when you'r...
BONNIE TYLER I'll Stay
...leave
...me.
...I'll
...follow
...you.
ELLEN HOPKINS Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.
ROBERT FROST Overheard on a Saltmarsh"
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
Green glass, gobl...
HAROLD MONRO Now with the new images, we're able to watch when the frost comes and goes and we can see that dunes...
RICH ZUREK ...they come to us, these restless dead,
Shrouds woven from the words of men,
With trumpet...
MIRA GRANT It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good
LESLIE BRICUSSE We awake at dawn.
To sink or swim.
KIERA WOODHULL
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JOHN GREEN Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
JOHN GREEN For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and too...
JOHN GREEN We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -...
JOHN GREEN I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
JOHN GREEN Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his large...
JOHN GREEN The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tighteni...
JOHN GREEN Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
JOHN GREEN You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
JOHN GREEN But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...
JOHN GREEN How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
JOHN GREEN AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
JOHN GREEN The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
JOHN GREEN I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
JOHN GREEN You can't just make me different and then leave
JOHN GREEN She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
JOHN GREEN But why Alaska?' I asked her.
'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
JOHN GREEN Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
JOHN GREEN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
JOHN GREEN I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN