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The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.
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seasons
winter
poets
poetry
writing
apple
april
auden
byron
de-la-mare
insomnia
longfellow
may
morris
nocturnal
season
september
shelley
spender
tennyson
pope
apples
coffee
spring
wordsworth
milton
fall
hart-crane
autumn
tea
keats
night
writers
burns
schiller
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Helen Bevington |
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Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
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madness
may
june
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Karen Joy Fowler |
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In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and wait for it to pass. And it would pass -but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.
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pain
heart
trembling
magnolias
may
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Haruki Murakami |
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Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.
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love
may
kisses
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Marcel Proust |
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"Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should stay away from the girl he knows would go to bed with him. Remember the words of Solomon to his son, "Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8). I know this advice sounds very narrow in a day when virginity is mocked and chastity is considered old-fashioned. But I don't apologize for it. The Scriptures are eternal, and God's standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture. He will honor and help those who are trying to follow His commandments. In fact, the apostle Paul said, "He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear" (1Corinthians 10:13). Hold that promise and continue to use your head. You'll be glad you did."
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words
wrong
trying
relationship
reason
trust
change
who
act
apostle
are
attracted
away
bear
beyond
can
chastity
commandments
considered
continue
did
door
do
eternal
glad
go
god-s
intended
is
knows
let
likely
mocked
narrow
near
proberbs
remeber
scriptures
single-date
slower
sounds
stay
tempted
those
very
what-you
whims
whom
would
you-ll
your
guy
and
day
you
with
old-fashioned
principle
keep
may
he
her
compromise
bed
first
never
avoid
advice
should
circumstances
place
not
to
preserve
important
use
hold
result
head
help
alone
follow
virginity
house
she
culture
wants
solomon
path
girl
paul
moral
son
be
someone
will
promise
honor
right
failure
him
standards
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James C. Dobson |
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"It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it," he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer."
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women
may
louisa
little
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Louisa May Alcott |
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And after winter folweth grene May.
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winter
may
spring
follow
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Geoffrey Chaucer |