"The moment we indulge our affections, the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.
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“The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.”
“Nature ever faithful isTo such as trust her faithfulness.”
“Stand guard at the portal of your mind.”
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“The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.”
“Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living.”
“Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”
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“My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is.”
“I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.”
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”