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Love once
Tipped the scales but now is shadowed, invisible,
Though mysteriously present, around somewhere.
John Ashbery
love
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There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amuseme ...
Lydia M. Child
New York City
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you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
E.E. Cummings
love | discovery
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The world was a huge ball then, the universe a might harmony of ellipses, everything moved mysteriously, incalculable distances th ...
John Dos Passos
astronomy | disillusionment | belief
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... no other railroad station in the world manages so mysteriously to cloak with compassion the anguish of departure and the dubio ...
M.F.K. Fisher
Paris | trains | travel
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The artefacts (sic) of a genius are distinguished by rich human content, for which he forges new images and new techniques, create ...
John Fowles
genius | craftsmanship
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Did you stay up last night (the Magi did)
To see the star shower known as Leonid ...
Robert Frost
meteors | phenomena
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Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents- to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding ...
Ellen Galinsky
new parents, general | pregnancy and childbirth
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Then we have difficulties between soldiers, very slight and easily disposed of; but troubles between soldiers and the carpenters w ...
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Civil War | companionship
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The news spread like wildfire among us youths, when formerly, once in a year or two, one of these boats came up the Concord River, ...
Henry David Thoreau
boatmen | ships and boats | clouds
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