"That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life."
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"The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history."
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"Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources."
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"Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?"
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"Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself."
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"In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door."
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"Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way."
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"Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love."
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"Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure."
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"Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi."
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"He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain."
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"At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable."
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"My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark."
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"Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine."
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"Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind."
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"He alone may chastise who loves."
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"Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed."
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"This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new."
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"The force of arms only reveals man s weakness."
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"A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore."
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