“One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became...”
― Leaves of Grass
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became...”
― Leaves of Grass
“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
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