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“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.”

“The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.”

Years Hard Fall Bird Stones Ghost Grieving Autumn Departed Fall Season Maple Autumn Leaves October And Fall Falling Leaves November Poems Fallen Leaves

Book:A Child's Calendar

Source: A Child's Calendar

“Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.”

Hard Lying Dies Fall Break Taught Flow Stones Break Up Ex Boyfriend Cannonballs

Author:Damien Rice

“I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.”

Way Light Happens Fall Sun Clear Five Air Wall Promise Stones Miles Kitchen Glorious Stations Breakfast Candle Orange October Frost Swamps Crimson Maple Stone Walls Candle Lights

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.”

Stills Home Night Fall Passion House Heaven Stars Grows Dark Watches Darkness Tree Sky Land Calling Stones Eternity Sight Blue Ancient Sunset Coats Immensity Darkening Ancient Trees

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.”

Heart Doe Fall Loss Stones Winter Cease Fallen Grieving Life And Death Preaching Nectar Precious Stones

Book:James K. Baxter

Source: James K. Baxter

“He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.”

Firsts May Fall Liberty Economics Stones Casts Libertarian Materialism Mortality Libertarianism Economist Infant Plague Famine Disdain Disappearance Infant Mortality

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.”

Fall Literature Water Stones Perseverance Dropping

Author:Lucretius

“When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust Of your mind is washed away.”

Feels Mind Fall Water Rain Rivers Stones Dust Bowls Drop Of Water

Author:Sen no Rikyu