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feb 8 - “Consider the way she had to go, Think of the hungry snare, The net she herself had woven, Aware or unaware, Of the dancing feet grown still, The blinded eyes -
Queens should be cold and wise”
— Feb 08, 2026 01:48AM
Queens should be cold and wise”
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bente
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feb 14 - “Seeing the false and searching for the true”
“A fountain in a waste, A well of water in a country dry, Or anything that's honest and good, an eye That makes the whole world bright.”
— 9 hours, 31 min ago
“A fountain in a waste, A well of water in a country dry, Or anything that's honest and good, an eye That makes the whole world bright.”
bente
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feb 13 - “Darling, I will track your flight till it is a dot that turns and banks and falls out of sight, looking into the space where you were.”
— Feb 13, 2026 01:52AM
bente
is on page 66 of 592
feb 12 - “So I have gathered unto myself
All the loose ends of Scotland, And by naming them and accepting them, Loving them and identifying myself with them, Attempt to express the whole.”
— Feb 12, 2026 01:05AM
All the loose ends of Scotland, And by naming them and accepting them, Loving them and identifying myself with them, Attempt to express the whole.”
bente
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feb 11 - “Why, as we reach the Falls of Death, Feel we its tide more rapid?”
— Feb 11, 2026 01:25AM
bente
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feb 10 - “What I wanted was such a plump, bountiful landscape of snow, more than I'd ever dared wish for.”
— Feb 10, 2026 02:24AM
bente
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feb 9 - “Small words yawn and suck their thumbs
Till at last the morning comes.
Kind words give out farewell posies…
Snap! The dictionary closes.”
— Feb 08, 2026 11:58PM
Till at last the morning comes.
Kind words give out farewell posies…
Snap! The dictionary closes.”
bente
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feb 7 - “Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands, Oh! where hae ye been?”
— Feb 07, 2026 01:34AM
bente
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feb 6 - “So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war”
— Feb 06, 2026 02:34AM
bente
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feb 5 - “O to dream, O to awake and wander There, and with delight to take and render, Through the trance of silence,
Quiet breath;”
— Feb 05, 2026 01:57AM
Quiet breath;”
