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But that face, that human, was gone. Mother Nature, as Tennyson said, is “red in tooth and claw,” demolishing every beautiful thing she has ever created.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Beowulf
by Richard Wilbur
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The land was overmuch like scenery,
The flowers attentive, the grass too garrulous green;
In the lake like a dropped kerchief could be seen
The lark's reflection after the lark was gone;
The Roman road lay paved too shiningly
For a road so many men had traveled on.
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Also the people were strange, were strangely warm.
The king rec
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Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Back in the village, with our soured relationships, we are neurotic, but the wood releases our full-blown madness. Birds and animals talk to us, departed souls speak.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Now they have beaten me, he thought. I am too old to club sharks to death. But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and the tiller.