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> [The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/the-very-serpents-bite-their-tails-the-bees-forget-to-sting-for-a/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

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> [The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/the-sign-work-of-the-orient-it-runneth-up-and-down-the-talmud-stalks/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

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## Other authors on Absent

## More by Nathalia Crane

> [There is a glory in a great mistake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/there-is-a-glory-in-a-great-mistake/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/the-very-serpents-bite-their-tails-the-bees-forget-to-sting-for-a/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/lo-and-behold-god-made-this-starry-wold-the-maggot-and-the-mold-lo/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/you-cannot-choose-your-battlefield-the-gods-do-that-for-you-but-you/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/i-linger-on-the-flathouse-roof-the-moonlight-is-divine-but-my-heart/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/oh-i-m-in-love-with-the-janitor-s-boy-and-the-janitor-s-boy-loves-me/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/across-the-downs-a-hummingbird-came-dipping-through-the-bowers-he/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/when-you-return-the-youngest-of-the-seers-released-from-fetters-of/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/the-rose-has-told-in-one-simplicity-that-never-life-relinquishes-a/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/great-is-the-rose-infected-by-the-tomb-yet-burgeoning-indifferent-to/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/great-is-the-rose-that-challenges-the-crypt-and-quotes-milleniums/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/once-a-pallid-vestal-doubted-truth-in-blue-listed-red-in-ruin-harried/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/the-world-is-growing-gentle-but-few-know-what-she-owes-to-the/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/a-precious-place-is-paradise-and-none-may-know-its-worth-but-eden/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

> [“You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. (From The Colors )”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-crane/you-cannot-choose-your-battlefield-god-does-that-for-you-but-you-can/)

[Nathalia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-crane/)

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