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«Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day»
Author: Alfred Edward Housman
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heavily, hopeless, remorseful, Sight and Sound, skies, the West, West
«Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.»
«Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.»
Author: Rumer Godden
| About:
Writing
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grit, grits, gritted, gritting, happening, lodges, lodging, of sound mind, pass away, piece of writing, Sight and Sound
«A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven.»
Author: Rupert Brooke
(Poet)
| About:
Mind
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at peace, gentleness, learnt, of sound mind, pulse, sights, Sight and Sound, The Pulse
«A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
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contemplation, poverty-stricken, Sight and Sound, stricken, succession, The Search
«What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i»
Author: Louis L'Amour
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coincide, coincides, Fields, gathers, grain, impressions, of sound mind, second sight, sights, Sight and Sound, smells, storing
«I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Adulthood,
Silence
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adult, appreciate, blessing, blind person, deaf, deaf person, deaf to, early, early days, joys, My early days, sight, Sight and Sound
«The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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abandoned, bodily, chip, commanded, continual, curly, delighted, dimple, dimpled, dimples, dimpling, dragoon, faculty, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, gingerbread, incurred, incurring, incurs, individualize, individualized, individualizes, individualizing, Less Than Perfect, lunatic, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, painted, prank, pranks, rank, secured, sensations, sense of purpose, Sight and Sound, symmetrical, tasked, whistle
«Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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architectural, assertive, bookstore, bookstores, bronze, bronzed, closets, concert, concerts, concert hall, dedicated, halls, imprisons, in concert, In Living Color, in sight, Libraries, loot, looting, monuments, shameless, Sight and Sound, sol, sterile, world record
«Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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exhilarate, languid, restore, rural, sights, Sight and Sound, tone
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