“ You have perhaps heard some false reports On the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears And where is the German Reich? There also Will be prodigious America and worldowning China. I say that all hopes and empires will die like yours; Mankind will die, there will be no more fools; wisdom will die; the very stars will die; One fierce life lasts. ”
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“ You have perhaps heard some false reports On the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears And where is the German Reich? There also Will be prodigious America and worldowning China. I say that all hopes and empires will die like yours; Mankind will die, there will be no more fools; wisdom will die; the very stars will die; One fierce life lasts. ”
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“ The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. ”
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“ I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there. ”
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“ I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men. ”
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“ I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there. ”
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“ The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. ”
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“ I hate my verses, every line, every word.Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to tryOne grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one birdThat clings to twig, ruffled against white sky.Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catchOne color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things. ”
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“ Science and mathematicsRun parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,They never touch it: consider what an explosionWould rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the worldIf any mind for a moment touch truth. ”
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“ I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars, none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole… ”
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“ It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles. ”
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“ Foreign travel is like a pleasant temporary death, relieving you of responsibilities and familiar duties. ”
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“ Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. ”
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“ Foreign travel is like a pleasant temporary death, relieving you of responsibilities and familiar duties. ”
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“ I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars, none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole… ”
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“ I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars, none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole… ”
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“ Look how noble the world is, the lonely-flowing waters, the secret-keeping stones, the flowing sky. ”
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“ Foreign travel is like a pleasant temporary death, relieving you of responsibilities and familiar duties. ”
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“ Foreign travel is like a pleasant temporary death, relieving you of responsibilities and familiar duties. ”
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“ Look how noble the world is, the lonely-flowing waters, the secret-keeping stones, the flowing sky. ”
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