Robert Hunter Quotes

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There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night. And if you go, no one may follow. That path is for your steps alone.

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Counting stars by candlelight, all are dim but one is bright; The spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best, Oh, from the northwest corner, of a brand new crescent moon, crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune...

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Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.

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Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

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While you were gone, these spaces filled with darkness. The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in. The compass always points to Terrapin.

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Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own

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There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot.

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Trouble ahead, Trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind

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Nothing's for certain, It could always go wrong, Come in when it's raining, Go on out when it's gone, We could have us a high time, Living the good life, Well I know

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The word Greenpeace had a ring to it—it conjured images of Eden; it said ecology and antiwar in two syllables; it fit easily into even a one-column headline.

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Sometimes the light's all shining on me, Other times I can barely see, Lately it occurs to me, What a long strange trip it's been...

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The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

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You who choose to lead must follow, But if you fall, you fall alone, If you should stand then who's to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home

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Oh no well I / been there before / and I ain't a comin back around / there no more / no I'm not

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Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.

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I like your smile but I ain't your type, Don't shake the tree when the fruit ain't ripe

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Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

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In the secret space of dreams, Where I dreaming lay amazed, When the secrets all are told, And the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, You dreamed of me

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I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

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Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

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Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through... the transitive nightfall of diamonds

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See here how everything leads up to this day. And it's just like any other day that's ever been. Sun going up and then, the sun, it going down. Shine through my window, and my friends they come around.

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When I was just a little young boy, Papa said "Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go."

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Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be here.

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In another time's forgotten space, your eyes looked through your mother's face, Wildflower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow you safely home. Roll away... the dew

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There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live

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But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

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Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done

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