One may know the world without
going out of doors.
One may see the Way of Heaven without
looking through the Windows.
-Lao Tzu, The Way of Lao Tzu,
Sixth Century B.C.
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Window to Storm
(Olympic, WA)
Under this window in stormy weather -Jonathan Swift, Marriage Service from His Chamber Window, 1733 |
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The Gap
(Mono Lake)
The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. -Robert Frost, Mending Wall |
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Glimpses of Sea
(Redwood)
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. -William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us, 1807 |
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Between the Light and Me
(Paris)
Between the light--and me-- And then the Windows failed--and then I could not see to see-- -Emily Dickinson, I Heard a Fly Buzz |
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Through Windows
(Paris)
Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? -John Donne, The Sun Rising |
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Window Niche
(Rodin Museum, Paris)
Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, -Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen, 1831 |
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Good-morrow
(Ceillac, French Alps)
Then to come in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine; -John Milton, L'Allegro, 1631 |
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Old Stones That Cannot be Deciphered
(Ceillac, French Alps)
But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one man only But of old stones that cannot be deciphered. -Thomas Stearns Eliot, Four Quartets. Easter Coker, V, 1940 |
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Come to the Window
(Mont-Dauphin, French Alps)
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! -Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach, 1867 |
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In the Window Niche
(St.-Véran, French Alps)
Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, -Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen, 1831 |
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Calm Sail
(Baja)
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. -W. H. Auden, Musee Des Beaux Arts |
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Possibilities
(Washington, D.C.)
I dwell in Possibilities-- A fairer House than Prose-- More numerous of Windows-- Superior -- for Doors. -Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, No. 657, 1862 |
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I Remember
(Utah)
The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn. -Thomas Hood, I Remember, I Remember, 1827 |