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To speak to someone beside the dock and the lighthouse
Shines like garnets. It has become a stricture.
John Ashbery
lighthouses | restriction
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It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden.
E.M. Forster
art
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling ...
E.M. Forster
art
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Clear and diminished like a scene cut in cameo
The lighthouse, and the boat on the beach, and the two shapes ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
lovers | women | men
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We here overtook two Italian boys, who had waded thus far down the Cape through the sand, with their organs on their backs, and we ...
Henry David Thoreau
civilization | provincialism | Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fa ...
Henry David Thoreau
sea
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The time must come when this coast will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the seaside. At pre ...
Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod | seashore
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This lighthouse was the cynosure of all eyes.
Henry David Thoreau
lighthouses
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Just before reaching the lighthouse, we saw the sun set in the Bay,--for standing on that narrow cape was, as I have said, like be ...
Henry David Thoreau
sea | oceans
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I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforde ...
Henry David Thoreau
lighthouses | education
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