Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)
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Related As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, t... WENDELL BERRY A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is a panther poised in a cypress tree about ... JOY HARJO A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you... EDGAR ALLAN POE The Word Wonder or dream from distant land I carried to my country's strand STEFAN GEORGE You've heard of vampires?" I nodded. "You've heard of werwolves?" "Of course." "... AMY PLUM From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the mi... ALBERT CAMUS I found a night’s sky full of stars In your cinematic eyes And heard a symphony In ... JUSTIN WETCH I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we... THOMAS PYNCHON Elm BY SYLVIA PLATH I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap r... SYLVIA PLATH On building homes for fallen angels: When I was small - I sought a home, a place to ... WILL ADVISE At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brig... MADELEINE L'ENGLE What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, ... T.S. ELIOT In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I ... نزار قباني I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I h... SARA TEASDALE How I wish I was like the water, Flowing so freely with every drop Let my every emotion wo... VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE I have a dream... I dream of undoing the damage we've done. I dream of clean ... BROOKE HAMPTON Sounds Is Love of All, the World Sounds create soulful existence, When the ... JOHN SHELTON JONES Fear Only Constraints Undeveloped ... ANTHONY LICCIONE I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean... EDWARD HIRSCH Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise... MAYA ANGELOU ...I was there when we opened the gates. Some of these poor wretches running out were so emaciated t... MARCUS BROTHERTON I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' DEREK LANDY We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solit... SCOTT STABILE The day will come When my body no longer exists But in the lines of this poem I will ... SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO With callused hands i tasted the softness of the moon in the coldest winds SANOBER KHAN They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a whi... ERNEST DOWSON Little Maiden Encounters Fear Deepest regions walked she there little maiden sweet a... MUSE KUNDALINI DANCE Dark and cold and wet were Her hands I felt Her chilly breath inside... NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of al... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. O... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE [On Anger] [T]he instinct of self-preservation, setting itself against everything that in... ANDREW MURRAY People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff... The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness. That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti... To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to... Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of... Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi... A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d... If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool. Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ... Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs. Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice. The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless. Friendship is love with understanding. So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan. Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li... Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts. We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example. Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good... The guilty catch themselves. Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it. Hate pollutes the mind. If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves. To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle. Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t... "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you." It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary. Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy. It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside. Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t... Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ... Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole. Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor. "What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i... It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice. Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words. Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason. Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses. Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u... Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
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