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Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. - Robinson Jeffers

Seagulls… slim yachts of the element. – Robinson Jeffers

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Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. – Robinson Jeffers

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Poetry
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Robinson Jeffers
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. – Henry David Thoreau

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Birds

A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his days work ended,
Lingers as in content,
There falls on the old, gray city
An influence luminous and serene,
A shining peace. – William Ernest Henley

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Birds

“Hear! hear!” screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, “winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.” – Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry

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Birds

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Birds

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