Emptiness Quote by Nathalia Crane

“Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.”

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Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade,…

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You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

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I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

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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…

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When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of…

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The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

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Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.

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Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.

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Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks…

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The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

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Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

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“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

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But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it…

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