The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment … - Nathalia Crane

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I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

Nathalia Crane

The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

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You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.

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In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

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The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.

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The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

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Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

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