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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.

  • Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.

  • What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

  • There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

  • It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

  • Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

  • I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!

  • Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

  • Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

  • The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

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