I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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And what is energy,In-working, which bids be
The starry pageant and the life of earth?
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And with the verbal creed
That God is love indeed,
Who dares make Love his god before all men?
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The lover of child Marjory
Had one white hour of life brim full;
Now the old nurse, the rocking sea,
Hath him to lull.
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The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
Bliss Carman
If love be naught,
Why do the gods still love?
Bliss Carman
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