"Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder"
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"Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?"
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"O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs."
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"One may receive the information but miss the teaching."
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"I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become."
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"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death"
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"But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come."
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"Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life."
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"If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta."
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"O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines"
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"some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds."
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"It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist."
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