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![[a song of the future - sidney lanier]
sail fast, sail fast,
ark of my hopes, ark of my dreams;
sweep lordly o'er the drowned past,
fly glittering through the sun's strange beams;
sail fast, sail fast.
breaths of new buds from off some drying lea
with news about the future scent the sea:
my brain is beating like the heart of haste:
i'll loose me a bird upon this present waste;
go, trembling song,
and stay not long; oh, stay not long:
thou'rt only a gray and sober dove,
but thine eye is faith and thy wing is love.](http://pcdn.500px.net/1715574/0d87305d664e4bd453f9f71cad04f314fae0ac62/4.jpg)
![[To Summer by William Blake]
O thou who passest thro' our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
That flames from their large nostrils! thou, O Summer,
Oft pitched'st here thy goldent tent, and oft
Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld
With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
Beneath our thickest shades we oft have heard
Thy voice, when noon upon his fervid car
Rode o'er the deep of heaven; beside our springs
Sit down, and in our mossy valleys, on
Some bank beside a river clear, throw thy
Silk draperies off, and rush into the stream:
Our valleys love the Summer in his pride.
Our bards are fam'd who strike the silver wire:
Our youth are bolder than the southern swains:
Our maidens fairer in the sprightly dance:
We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy,
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.](http://pcdn.500px.net/1742751/df235929dd051876cfec6ecaf73d7a63c1f712da/4.jpg)
![[emily dickinson]
as if the sea should part
and show a further sea --
and that -- a further -- and the three
but a presumption be --
of periods of seas --
unvisited of shores --
themselves the verge of seas to be --
eternity -- is those --](http://pcdn.500px.net/1798202/7c139cb198bbfde88731a7e214707db193fcffc1/4.jpg)
![[no existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself - simone de beauvoir]](http://pcdn.500px.net/2060286/c2350105ed7c23851c595e8e39fb3bc52b55c752/4.jpg)
![[better than we even knew]](http://pcdn.500px.net/2513988/9915b7a08c8f56099c23f023669fccd6a27490f5/4.jpg)
![[pour lars van trier]](http://pcdn.500px.net/3269956/ad6b0011ab7f603b7dec0f3b911f0e39ee481261/4.jpg)
![[that shadow, my likeness]
[by walt whitman]
that shadow
my likeness
that goes to and fro
seeking a livelihood
chattering,
chaffering;
how often I find myself standing
and looking at it where it flits;
how often I question and doubt
whether that is really me;
but in these
and among my lovers
and caroling my songs,
oh I never doubt
whether that is really me](http://pcdn.500px.net/3463724/4ca1342d2a2edde8a3b8d59dac46d3f39afa86b0/4.jpg)
![[young sea - carl sandburg]
the sea is never still.
it pounds on the shore
restless as a young heart,
hunting.
the sea speaks
and only the stormy hearts
know what it says:
it is the face
of a rough mother speaking.
the sea is young.
one storm cleans all the hoar
and loosens the age of it.
I hear it laughing, reckless.
they love the sea,
men who ride on it
and know they will die
under the salt of it
let only the young come,
says the sea.
let them kiss my face
and hear me.
I am the last word
and I tell
where storms and stars come from.](http://pcdn.500px.net/3582784/20fd4b693aa7b7d5b73e1cff722b93c5c603f122/4.jpg)
![black on black a.s.j. tessimond]
serrations of chimneys
stone-black perforate
velvet-black dark.
a tree coils in core of darkness.
my swinging
hands
incise the night.
a man slips into a doorway,
black hole in blackness, and drowns there.
a second man passing traces
the diagram of his steps
on invisible pavement. rain
draws black parallel threads
through the hollow of air.](http://pcdn.500px.net/3974141/b625a065ad8016346dfd09526c992854b76b0645/4.jpg)
![this dark gravity]
I remember being free
and that sense of being light
in love with the earth
but then I stand still
and this heavy dark gravity
reminds me I'm not
and I feel it there
pulling on my broken heart
and I start to sink
and just when I'm sure
there is no way I can stand
I remember she exists](http://pcdn.500px.net/3985728/61185d536443eea553d768eae89f1e46f3b83de9/4.jpg)
![[of shadows and moonlight]
falling in silent stanzas
in an unpunctuated snowstorm
you and I were in love with
every note of a trembling desire -
that melody of a december
wordlessly assembled by angels
carrying through the branches
in that forest born of endless dreams -
and you I shivered softly
as we both embraced the thought
of being forever in a tangle
two broken shadows - lost in the moonlight](http://pcdn.500px.net/4017154/52bbde61d730c73ff94fe4c29d22a407473e1ef3/4.jpg)
![[five] - [like endymion before selene]
and the cold sweeps -
like endymion before selene ...
and her kisses were -
the last thing he remembered ...
before zeus consigned him -
to an eternal prison of sleep](http://pcdn.500px.net/4130502/65d6d920cad3c586153ebc954ed225c1ce0e37bf/4.jpg)
![[here comes the future]](http://pcdn.500px.net/4136114/88386c4304cfcbf8f0d943086968486e882ace0d/4.jpg)
![[vagrant]
I live in a time,
I wasn't born for.
and as stars go -
mine was a vagrant](http://pcdn.500px.net/4288586/fae63f6722bed562672d8fd18a5b81d42a0653a8/4.jpg)
![["life begins on the other side of despair"] - [jean-paul sartre]](http://pcdn.500px.net/4648589/fe9c8c9cd6f3aea76e3443a130c88116ebf0e208/4.jpg)
![I saw the wind within her] - [emily dickinson]
I saw the wind within her
I knew it blew for me --
but she must buy my shelter
I asked humility](http://pcdn.500px.net/5004865/316d59c77d23439c089975212aa1feb319af542c/4.jpg)
![[a winter transit]
the willows asleep
waiting on the song of spring
a winter transit](http://pcdn.500px.net/5064079/1fedf86a672083f3cc9c40f204dd12a49e04622d/4.jpg)
![[manhattan two]](http://pcdn.500px.net/5098394/f2cd262d77739d31a393fdb05e0952aef4e4ca1a/4.jpg)
![[the fields in silver]](http://pcdn.500px.net/5223144/2746e5c501f817f47a6e8f8973ebc1ddf15d3d3c/4.jpg)