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“Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!”

Men Shows Eye Earth Steps Fields Spots His Eyes Warning Echoes Grove

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth.”

Men Two Soul Eye Earth Money Fields Drink Kissing Gold Green His Eyes Silver Yield Blades Pebbles Green Fields

Book:The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

“So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled; And the waters above the earth came down, The cooling waters came down.”

World Hands Eye Earth Water Sea Seven Edges His Eyes Lightning Thunder Cooling Spats Edge Of The World

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.”

Men May Has Beens Eye Earth Boring His Eyes Acquaintance Familiarity Glamour Cradle Tedious Great Ones

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”

Knows Doe Home Eye Earth Fighting Animal Existence Expression Capable Size His Eyes Courageous Suspects Conventions Suspicion Peasants Bourgeois Defenders Gallant Family Home

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night