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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more


Lord Byron

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Though it's deep, though it's dark
And though you may lose the path...
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The wind is blowing, and the white foam is ...
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Hi...
ROBERT FROST My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
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That Nature doesn’t exist,
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I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I ...
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There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

Her soul...
W.B. YEATS There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must al...
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
EDGAR ALLAN POE ...
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so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
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There where...
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Pleasure is a freedom-song,
But it is not freedom.
It is the...
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A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a...
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And go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there,
Of clay ...
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We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowled...
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I love not less, though less the show app...
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God and I in space alone . . .
and nobody else in view . . .
"And wh...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you, I cannot...
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Sounds create soulful existence,
When the ...
JOHN SHELTON JONES A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ;
Su...
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In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom y...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'

a foolish fish which tries to draw<...
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I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on...
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I dreamed that I was a rose
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TEKOA MANNING He says, "Keats for my Keats. Look inside."
I gently open the cover. Inside, written in pencil,...
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at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
I...
CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beau...
RUPI KAUR STARS AND DANDELIONS
Deep in the blue sky,
like pebbles at the bottom of the sea,
lie...
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And surf along the shore --
And in my heart a name
M...
CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of ...
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ANGIE KARAN Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw,
Here and there a patch of sn...
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In tracings of...
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I named her love.
She has a father.
His name is desire.
Her mo...
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"For hate is strong,...
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The evil is vanquished.
The world is set right.
Sometime...
V.E. SCHWAB In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
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Is there anything more lonely than that?
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Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some.
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In life's ocean vast and wide,
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whole wide world
than a girl
in love
wit...
ATTICUS POETRY There are, in fact,
a cognitive itch
and a divination using the human form
while bein...
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I k...
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Day is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
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Love me with the s...
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Does it remain itself, unchan...
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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There wh...
ALFRED TENNYSON Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
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C. JOYBELL C. Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
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...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obs...
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The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flie...
HERMANN HESSE There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make
a mistake but are going hard, you can s...
BRYAN MCCANN Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i...
JOHN FOWLES there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is ...
FRANK ZAPPA A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or...
VERA NAZARIAN Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
Just a trick of the woods!
Just ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home, sweet home<...
HENRY VAN DYKE A dragon grows in leaps and bounds,
Like troubles mounting by the pound.

Its stature...
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LORD BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
LORD BYRON That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
LORD BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
LORD BYRON I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman ...
LORD BYRON Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
LORD BYRON I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD BYRON In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
LORD BYRON Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
LORD BYRON I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de...
LORD BYRON The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w...
LORD BYRON I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart
LORD BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
LORD BYRON Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
LORD BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
LORD BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
LORD BYRON Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
LORD BYRON Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
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