Death is a Dialogue between,
The Spirit and the Dust.
-Emily Dickinson,
The Complete Poems
And I will show that nothing can
happen more beautiful than death.
-Walt Whitman,
Starting from Paumanok
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The most beautiful emotion we can
experience is the mystical.
-Albert Einstein,
Einstein, His Life and Times
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O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
-William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.
-R. Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra
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O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-
Nature's observatory; ...
-Keats, Sonnet: O Solitude
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O Freedom! if to me belong
Nor mighty Milton's gift divine
Nor Marvell's wit and graceful song,
Still with a love as deep and strong
As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shine!
-Whittier, Proem
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Art is silence made clear.
-Jean Cocteau, La Rappel a l'Ordre
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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