"When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!"

-- Bayard Taylor

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“When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.”
“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 10), 1930.
“There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.”
“I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.”
“Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.”
“I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.”
“O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.”

Source : Harvey Rice (1858). “Mount Vernon: And Other Poems”, p.152
“And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.”

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