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Bill Callahan1 quote
Well, I can tell you about the river
Or we could just get in. — Bill Callahan · 2007John Keats1 quote
O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! — John Keats · 1817Kate Chopin1 quote
For the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her. — Kate Chopin · 1899Robert Frost1 quote
Now no joy but lacks salt
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain
Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove. — Robert Frost · 1923Roger Miller1 quote
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet. — Roger Miller · 1973Walt Whitman1 quote
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1867William Faulkner1 quote
Between grief and nothing I will take grief. — William Faulkner · 1939Zora Neale Hurston1 quote
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942