The child is the father of the man . . .”
- William Wordsworth
https://kidadl.com/fun-facts/william-wordsworth-facts-all-about-this-english-poet-megastar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXFSvtHQtSU
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Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare
(Painting by Alfred Stevens )
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/
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How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow.”
- Robert Walser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walser_(writer)
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”
― Aristotle
https://factslegend.org/30-interesting-aristotle-facts-know/
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
- Emily Dickinson
https://kidadl.com/articles/incredible-emily-dickinson-facts?fbclid=IwAR2UDh1R8k5ykH49j0f0l1nAYEiZ1lBEaXgWZJ8EMLO0wryjadQQMWfIo0g
(“The Foot Bridge Painting” by artist, Arie Reinhardt Taylor)
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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Self-portrait by artist, Frida Kahlo, 1941)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
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In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago."
- Christina Rossetti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti
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Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn’t there.”
- Carl Sagan
. . . (OPTICAL ILLUSION: First, it looks like a man walking in forest; it’s really a dog running towards you.}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
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When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.”
― Salvador Dalí
https://arthive.com/salvadordali/works/316415~Sleep
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/sleep/article-689733
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
Painting by Salvador Dali, “Sleep” 1937
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Time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers.”
- Albert Einstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”
- Virginia Woolf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf
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It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”
― Dylan Thomas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas
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“. . . how much better it would be if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed down under the snow, to wake with their hurts healed and their defeats forgotten.”
― Willa Cather
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather
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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky
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Silence and solitude,
the soul’s best friends.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Danish painter, Vilhelm Hammershoi, 1864-19160)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow
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Snow, delicate snow, that falls with such lightness on the head, on the feelings, come and cover over the sadness that lies always in my reason.”
- Miguel de Unamuno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno
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Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, Th’ indifferent judge between the high and low.”
- Astrophel and Stella (Certain Sonnets, Sonnet XXXIIX)
(Artist, William Dobell, “Young Man Sleeping” (1935).)
https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/astrophil-and-stella/
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