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The world is not a box, there’s no lid, no doors, no cardboard flaps or locks, and everything in nature from the clouds to the rocks is a piece of the puzzle of the purpose of mankind, it's a piece of the peace that we’ll find.

Dawud Wharnsby

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Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail,That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale,Downward they move, a melancholy band,Pass from the shore and darken all the strand.

Oliver Goldsmith

— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 399.

Tags: Down, yon, anch'ring, vessel, spreads, idly, waiting, move, melancholy

I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Sylvia Plath

— "Elm"

Tags: inhabited, cry, Nightly, Looking, hooks, something, love, terrified, dark

Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore and darken all the strand.

Oliver Goldsmith

— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 399.

Tags: Down, yon, anch'ring, vessel, spreads, sail, idly, waiting, gale

I love to see the old heath's withered brakeMingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling,While the old heron from the lonely lakeStarts slow and flaps its melancholy wing

john clare

— Emmonsail's Heath in Winter

Tags: love, see, old, withered, leaves, furze, heron, lonely, slow

When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, "He was a man who used to notice such things"?

thomas hardy

— Afterwards, lines 1-4, from Moments of Vision (1917).

Tags: When, Present, postern, behind, tremulous, stay, May, month, glad

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