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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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There is a glory in a great mistake.

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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…

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

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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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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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“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

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In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

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Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason…

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I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the…

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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost…

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Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

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The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your…

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So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

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Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of…

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My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient…

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Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

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All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and…

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