"The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas."
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"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
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"I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!"
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"Forever is composed of nows."
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"This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me"
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"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
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"You don't have to be a house to be haunted."
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"Till I loved I never lived."
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"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
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"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
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"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
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"Fortune befriends the bold."
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"To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity."
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"The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy."
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"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
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"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
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"I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose."
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