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Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Crossing the Bar (1889)In context
Death is the end of life; ah! why
Should life all labour be?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Lotos-Eaters (1832)In context
- Work
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Crossing the Bar (1889)In context
- Faith
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Emotion
So runs my dream: but what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto LIIIIn context
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
- Money
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862August 19, 1851
- Writing
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), p. 10In context
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Friday
- Poetry
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Civil Disobedience (1849)In context
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), p. 104In context
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
- Inspiration
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
- Nature
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
Our life is frittered away by detail.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context