He made close acquaintance with phenomena he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.
("Tess of the D'Urbervilles")
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My spirit will not haunt the moundAbove my breast,
But travel, memory-possessed,
To where my tremulous being found
Life largest, best.
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If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir how hedges and other shapes to leeward then caught the note, lowering it to the tenderest sob and how the hurrying gust then plunged into the south, to be heard no more.
Thomas Hardy
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