"Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'."
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"She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?"
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"And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before."
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"I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation."
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"Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!"
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"I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see."
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"Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace."
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"A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech."
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"We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936"
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"I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man."
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"It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was."
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"Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries."
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"Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter."
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"Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard."
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"Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death."
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"Speak me fair in death."
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"Why, thou owest god a death."
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"What is thy sentence then but speechless death."
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"Tired with all these, for restful death I cry."
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"On pain of death, no person be so bold."
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