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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
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But no weather interfered fatally with my walks, or rather my going abroad, for I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines;
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
the forest is quiet but partial to birds
Cold Mountain (Han Shan) • The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
Herman Melville • Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.