"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."
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"...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies)."
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"Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky"
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"If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk."
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"Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of."
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"Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!"
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"I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky."
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"Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad"
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"There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance."
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"Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky."
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"it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower."
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"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
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"A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn."
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"Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth."
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"Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."
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"The man in the street does not know a star in the sky."
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"Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove."
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"A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age."
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"The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with."
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"And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky."
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