"In years that bring the philosophic mind."

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“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”

“One of those heavenly days that cannot die.”

“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”

“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”

“Nature's old felicities.”

“But he is risen, a later star of dawn.”

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"Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas."

— Vivian Stanshall

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"I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time."

— Barack Obama

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"nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets."

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"The ascent of man into heaven is not the key, but rather his ascent here into the spirit and the descent also of the Spirit into his normal humanity and the transformation of this earthly nature. For …"

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