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“Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.”

People Years Firsts Mean Eye Black Fields College Depression Lonely Empty Illness Woods Critical Mental Illness Routes Cemetery Creeks Semester Lonely Places

Author:Samantha Abeel

“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”

Hands Light Eye Night Black Pieces Tears Wings Good Things Woods Invisible Agents Pale Bloody Prey Crow Pitiful Scarves Macbeth Play Invisible Hand Great Bond

Author:William Shakespeare

“Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.”

Way Want I Can Black Talking Doubt Tree Praying Woods Invisible My Way No Doubt Hug Oaks Talkers Oak Tree

Author:Mary Oliver

“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.”

“Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.”

Men Use Black Fit Clothes Woods Hardest Meat Expensive Vegetables Tails Finest Coats Pearls Jewels Virginia Ham Peppers Caviar Tuxedos Opal Expensive Clothes Black Pearl

Author:Ann Petry

“The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.”

Stills Moving Black Water White Sun Roots Wave Woods Holes Brown Sand Twisted Transparent Back Again Bluffs

Book:The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”

Writing Littles Book Stories Reading Black Reader Mark Woods Writers And Writing Writing By Writers Pulp Story Writing Writing Stories Creativity And Writing Story Writers Unread Books

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”

Black Green Woods Horrible Swings Mud Margins Parrots

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.”

Kind Stills Different Hard Found Black White Quality Saws Cutting Red Stones Woods Mediums Instance Lava Quarry Umbria Red And Black

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.”

Doe Ideas Would Be Wanted Felt Bits Black White Pieces Color Draws Woods Be Good Drawing Landscape Black And White New Ideas

Author:David Hockney