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Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves' birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to... - MORE Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves' birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

Angela Carter

Christmas

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The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measu... - MORE The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

labor | common people

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Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh... - MORE Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

D.H. Lawrence

love | universe, the | time

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It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is... - MORE It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is

cheering, the crowd is laughing
in detail

permanently, seriously
without thought

William Carlos Williams

summer | crowds | sports

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There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling,
Whether as learned bard or gifted child; - MORE There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling,
Whether as learned bard or gifted child;

Robert Graves

stories and storytelling | children

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each new victim treads unfalteringly
The never altered circuit of his fate,... - MORE each new victim treads unfalteringly
The never altered circuit of his fate,
Bringing twelve peers as witness
Both to his starry rise and starry fall.

Robert Graves

victims | fate

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Dwell on her graciousness, dwell on her smiling,
Do not forget what flowers... - MORE Dwell on her graciousness, dwell on her smiling,
Do not forget what flowers
The great boar trampled down in ivy time.
Her brow was creamy as the crested wave,
Her sea-blue eyes were wild
But nothing promised that is not performed.

Robert Graves

smiles | flowers | memory

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