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Expecting rain, the profile of a day
Wears its soul like a hat.... Expecting rain, the profile of a day
Wears its soul like a hat....
John Ashbery
day | soul | rain
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All we know
Is that we are a little early, that... - MORE All we know
Is that we are a little early, that
Today has that special, lapidary
Todayness that the sunlight reproduces
Faithfully in casting twig-shadows on blithe
Sidewalks. No previous day would have been like this.
John Ashbery
day | sunlight
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This is just a footnote, though a microcosmic one perhaps, to the greater curve
Of the elaboration; it asks no place in it, o... - MORE This is just a footnote, though a microcosmic one perhaps, to the greater curve
Of the elaboration; it asks no place in it, only insertion hors-texte as the invisible notion of how that day grew
From planisphere to heaven, and what part in it all the "I" had, the insatiable researcher of learned trivia, bookworm ...
John Ashbery
astronomy | day | philosophical
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Another day. Deliberations are recessed
In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon... - MORE Another day. Deliberations are recessed
In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon
On which we wore things and looked well at
A slab of business rising behind the stars.
John Ashbery
business | day
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As the shade went up
And the ambulance came crashing through the dust... - MORE As the shade went up
And the ambulance came crashing through the dust
Of the new day, the moon and the sun and the stars,
And the iceberg slowly sank
In the volcano and the sea ran far away
Yellow over the hot sand, green as the green trees.
John Ashbery
day | dawn
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Under the day's crust a half-eaten child ... Under the day's crust a half-eaten child ...
John Ashbery
day
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Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure predict... - MORE Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.
Walter Benjamin
day
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the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,... - MORE the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye—
So priketh hem nature in hir corages—
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
Geoffrey Chaucer
day | birds | pilgrimages
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
René Daumal
day
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When it comes, the Landscape listens—
Shadows—hold their breath—... - MORE When it comes, the Landscape listens—
Shadows—hold their breath—
When it goes, 'tis like the Distance
On the look of Death—
Emily Dickinson
light | day
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