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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness…
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Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are…
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The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with…
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Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
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I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would…
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet…
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If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest…
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I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I…
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To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field;…
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The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
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How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the…
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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You…
— Amy Tan
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
— John Galsworthy
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The wind is a natural way to loosen and release dead leaves and branches, just as emotional and life-situation storms are opportunities…
— Doreen Virtue
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Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of…
— Tom Waits
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Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
— Rumi
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A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with…
— Cyril Connolly
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...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted…
— Tom Franklin
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate…
— John Ruskin
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It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
— Jane Austen
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The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have…
— Tennessee Williams
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So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like…
— Nicole Krauss
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