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“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”

Source: Complete Works

“Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.”

“What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.”

Looks Littles Hands Earth Desire Sound Flower Cold Birth Scene Essentials Garden Blessed Fruit Rewards Heavy Soil Gardening Scent Toil Strawberries Aprons Small Hands

Author:Ruth Pitter

“Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?”

“(After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving: I wonder if that choice has anything to do with genetics. ... I want to take mine home and look after them so that they live for days. I might spray the leaves, and make sure they sit in an easterly window, and keep them out of the direct sun.”

Ifs Want Years Looks Littles Home Might Mother Choices Wonder Laughing Sun Mines Flower Birth Direct Window Meetings Bunch Coincidence Genetics Spray Orchids Live For The Day Birth Mother

Author:Jackie Kay

“The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.”

Love Littles Said Helping Earth Joy Birth Creatures Angel Mirth Angelic Angels On Earth

Book:William Blake: XVII Designs to Thornton's Virgil, Reproduced from the Original Woodcuts, MDCCCXXI.

Source: William Blake: XVII Designs to Thornton's Virgil, Reproduced from the Original Woodcuts, MDCCCXXI.