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“Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.”

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William C. Bryant was an American poet, born on November 3, 1794, and died on June 12, 1878. His poetry is known for its concise language and profound emotional expression, which has had a profound impact on American literature. more

“Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away amongst scenes like these, Under the fans of the chestnut trees; Living my child-life over again, With the further hope of a fallen delight, Blithe as the birds and wise as the bees.”

Life May Children Pain Hope Pleasure Wise Tree Fans Please Scene Married Bird Sight Delight My Children Fallen Buried Bees Chestnuts Blithe

Book:Collected Verses

Source: Collected Verses

“When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion. . . . Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime.”

“Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always her face. Who is she? Then things begin to crystallize. You remember your funeral. Begging and pleading for someone to release you from the darkness. You're not dead. You can't be. Then you feel her presence. Warm, caring, soothing. But somewhere deep inside she feels empty now. She has no reason. No meaning. No soul. But your soul lives. While her's is dying.”

Life Feels Mind Soul Reason Pain Remember Faces Memories Darkness Dying Empty Caring Warm Wide Release Your Soul No Reason Funeral Haunting Begging Soothing Deep Inside Pleading Soul Life

Author:Todd McFarlane

“The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.”

Eye Pain Nations Land Threat Historical Lists Command Ruins Plenty Despise Senate Applause

Book:The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford

Source: The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford

“Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.”

Feels Pain Happiness Childhood Fields Blow Stranger Hills Vain Beloved Bliss Shade Careless Momentary Gale

Book:The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

“The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.”

Love Pain Suffering Taken

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.”

Firsts Doe Pain Results Brain Class Stupid Saint Painful Stupidity Occasions Sinner Sober First Class Colossal

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.”

Light Pain Pleasure Wave Vain Fades Dazzle

Book:The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

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