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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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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a…
— Jonathan Swift
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Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.
— Henry B. Eyring
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the…
— William Carlos Williams
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And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
— James Russell Lowell
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On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
— Richard Attenborough
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There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl…
— Celia Rees
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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
— Chinua Achebe
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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light…
— Denise Levertov
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The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,…
— Isaac Newton
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Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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