Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see
Over the verge of the sundown
The beauty that is to be.
-Bliss Carman, Lord of the Far Horizons
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but Passion is the gale.
-Pope, Moral Essays, I
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Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds.
-Gray, Elergy Written in a Country Churchyard
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Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see
Over the verge of the sundown
The beauty that is to be.
-Bliss Carman, Lord of the Far Horizons
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The world, an entity out of everything,
was created by neither gods nor men,
but was, is and will be
eternally living fire,
regularly becoming ignited
and regularly becoming extinghished.
-Heraclitus,The Cosmic Fragments
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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds
Along the pebbled shore of memory!
-John Keats, Endymion
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And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy gray eye glances
And where thy footstep gleams-
In what ethereal dances
By what eternal streams.
-Poe, To One in Paradise
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Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
-Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, III, 5
I take very seriously the task of awakening,
in as many people as possible,
a deeper understanding
of the awe-inspiring wonder of nature
and I am fanatically eager
to gain proselytes.
-Konrad Lorenz
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Set your affection on things above,
not on things on the earth.
-Bible: New Testament, Colossians 3:2.
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Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears.
-Mrs. (David) Porter,
Thou hast wounded the Spirit
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The sky is changed,--and such a change! O night
And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong,
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light
Of a dark eye in woman! Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder.
-Lord Byron,
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
-Luc Marquis De Vauvenagues,
Reflexions et Maximes
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There is an evening twilight of the heart,
When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.
-Fitz-Greene Halleck, Twilight
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'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.
-Thomas Campbell, Lochiel's Warning
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I am fevered with the sunset,
I am fretted with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me
And my soul is in Cathay.
-Richard Hovey, The Sea Gypsy
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The mountains look on Marathon,
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free.
-Lord Byron, Don Juan
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Poets are the hierophants of
an unapprehended inspiration;
the mirrors of the gigantic shadows
which futurity casts upon the present.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley,
A Defense of Poetry
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I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
the still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh not grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
-William Wordsworth,
Lines Composed a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey
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I have seen the sunset, stained with mystic wonders,
Illumine the rolling waves with long purple forms,
Like actors in ancient plays.
-Arthur Rimbaud, Le Bateau Ivre
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Water is best.
But gold shines like fire
blazing in the night,
supreme of lordly wealth.
-Pindar,
Olympian Odes I
