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All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, ...more

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We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which ...more

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The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the fallin...more

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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Every word was once a poem.

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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, & the eternity it inhe...more

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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator com...more

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them

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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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Earth laughs in flowers.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible