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I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am read more
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
It's the things I might have said that fester.
It's the things I might have said that fester.
