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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into...
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool...
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
Source: Vers Dor?s, in L'Artiste ...
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves,...
The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.
Source:
-- Gerard...
Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as...
Time and space are only forms of thought.
Source: The Story of the Amulet,...
Little brown brother, oh! lime brown brother,
Are you awake in the dark?
Source:...
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for...
He clapped the glass to his sightless eye,
And 'I'm damned if I see it', he said.
Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come.
(Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?)
Slung atween the...
There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight -
Ten to make and the match to win -
A bumping pitch and a...
Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore,
Strike et when your powder's runnin' low;
If the Dons sight...
Now the sunset breezes shiver,
And she's fading down the river,
But in England's song for ever
She's the...
I will go back to the great sweet mother,
Mother and lover of men, the sea.
For words divide and rend;
But silence is most noble till the end.
Source: In...
Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold,
A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to...
I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep;
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow...
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
Source: Hope and Fear
-- Algernon...