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Arid and saturnine, i shouldn't
Have allegiance to that place
Among anything or anywhere
But if i could I'd tell you about
The castles of Denver
I don't have much to a say
A self impressed restriction
To alleviate a symptom
Of a greater condition
But I would tell you about
The castles of Denver
Their size and distance
From a child's position
A vantage on a hill
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Lui Chi
The rain is due to fall ( Read more... ) -
T'ao Ch'ien
I built my hut in a zone of human habitation ( Read more... ) -
The Great Summons
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And round the house a covered way should run
Where horses might be trained.
And sometimes riding, sometimes going afoot
You shall explore, O Soul, the parks of spring;
Your jewelled axles gleaming in the sun
And your yoke inlaid with gold;
Or amid orchises and sandal-trees
Shall walk in the dark woods
O Soul come back and live for these delights!
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By and by...
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Far in the wilds...
Deep in the grass there lies a dead gazelle ( Read more... ) -
Heschel
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers no harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair." ... "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." ... "In ( Read more... ) -
For everyone...
"Holy lamb, see the world we started, is it so low again? Like a light that's lost upon the stage, so the more it shines, it goes away. Surely then, see the curtain rising to show us once again all the magic of the earth and the skies. See the more we find, the more we realize that every time... see the laws of nature keep telling us like a friend ( Read more... ) -
I object...
Perhaps the reason Huxley didn't attempt to seduce readers into the concept of paradise engineering with Brave New World is because he knew all too keenly (as a well-known user of hallucinogens, mind you) what the implications were of human-kind being either temporarily (through drugs) semi-permanently (through social/emotional conditioning) or ( Read more... )