You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain freemargin, and even vagueness ignorance, credulity helps your enjoyment of these things.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
A morningglory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethelessAnd filter and fibre your blood.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
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Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? Have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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