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The only secret people keep
Is Immortality.
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Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock.
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The second half of joy
Is shorter than the first.
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A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides—
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
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The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
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Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.
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Ourself behind ourself concealed
Should startle most.
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The truth I do not dare to know
I muffle with a jest.
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The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.
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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.
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I'll tell you how the Sun rose —
A Ribbon at a time—
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How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
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A Letter is a joy of Earth —
It is denied the Gods —.
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I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.
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Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
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That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
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The Amherst heart is plain and whole and permanent and warm.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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Bees are black, with gilt surcingles—
Buccaneers of buzz.
A surcingle is a belt or girth
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.
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'Tis Dying — I am doing — but
I'm not afraid to know —.
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It is not dying hurts us so, —
'T is living hurts us more.
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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
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God gave a Loaf to every Bird —
But just a Crumb—to Me —
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The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness.
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I like to see it lap the Miles —
And lick the Valleys up —
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
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Born:
December 10, 1830
Died:
May 15, 1886
(aged 55)
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