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This restless worldIs full of chances, which by habit's powerTo learn to bear is easier than to shun.
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Death in the wood,—In the death-pale lips apart;Death in a whiteness that curdled the blood,Now black to the very heart:The wonder by her was formedWho stands supreme in power;To show that life by the spirit comesShe gave us a soulless flower!
elaine goodale eastman— Indian Pipe, Stanza 4; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 391.
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.
osbert sitwell— "When First the Poets Sung", line 47
— These lines were repeatedly drawn on by Sitwell in his later works.
People have the powerTo redeem the work of foolsUpon the meek the graces showerIt's decreed the people rule.
Patti Smith— People Have the Power, from Dream of Life (1988)
