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“If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.”

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Mason Cooley was an enigmatic writer and critic whose works spanned a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, literature, and everyday life. Known for his concise, profound, and humorous style, he was greatly admired by readers. more

“Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of bright, sure-coming spring; Yet the heart gathers hope and strange delight From this dear, unlovely, wished-for sight Of leaden-misted twilights lengthening.”

Heart Earth Tree Strange Spring Draws Sight Dear Delight Dull Thick Twilight Mist February Forecasts

Author:Emma Lazarus

“Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.”

Ifs Knows Art Stills Body Might Humanity Poor Cities Known Sweet Clothes Sick Mood Purity Ecstasy Sane Exhilarating Sophistication Respectability Nudists

Book:Specimen Days & Collect

Source: Specimen Days & Collect

“And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.”

Thinking Trying Doe Death White Doubt Growing Sweet Thousand Ten Died Rose Leaving Lips Smell Bitter No Doubt Breasts Good Man Mortality Hug Idle Corpses Alarms Polished Manure Melons White Rose

Author:Walt Whitman

“Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?”

People Men Joy Blood Men And Women Flats Sunlight Leaving Me

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.”

Men Want Years Littles Stuff Speech Six Bounds Repeats Applause Old Stuff

Author:William Feather

“A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.”

“Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.”

Persons Soul Body Government Earth Song Passion Sex Love Is Results Mystery Judging Pride Delight Proof Command Purity Milk Justification Delicacy Love Passion

Book:Leaves of Grass

Source: Leaves of Grass

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