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De Gourmont, Remy. Promenades Philosophiques. c. 1905.

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De Lamartine, Alphonse. "Le Lac [The Lake]." Recueillements poétiques [Poetic Meditations]. Paris: Imp P. Didot L'aine, 1820.

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.

William Cowper

The Winter Morning Walk

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Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 5.

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Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 5.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." Aids to Reflection. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825, aphorism 25.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 9: Aids to Reflection, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2017.

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France, Anatole. L'Ile des Pingouins [Penguin Island]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908, bk. 6, ch. 2.

Selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.

Cecil Day-Lewis

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Day-Lewis, Cecil. "Walking Away." The Gate, and Other Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, I. 19.

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Clare, John. The Present is the Funeral of the Past. c. 1845, I. 1.

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Clare, John. "The Present is the Funeral of the Past." The Later Poems of John Clare. Oxford University Press, 1984, I. 1.

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Ammons, Archie Randolph. "Corsons Inlet." Corsons Inlet: A Book of Poems. W. W. Norton & Company, 1975. Originally published as "A Nature Walk." The Hudson Review, June 1963.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.

Thomas Campbell

Lochiels's Warning

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Campbell, Thomas. Lochiel's Warning. c. 1802.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, pt. 1, no. 18, I. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. "The world is too much with us." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House. Self-published, 1854, bk. 2, canto 9, prelude 2.

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Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost. 1597, England, UK, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labour's Lost." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

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Wordsworth, William. "My heart leaps up when I behold." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Graves

The Persian Version

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Graves, Robert. "The Persian Version." Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques. Cassell & Company, 1946, I. 1.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

We never have despair without some small hope.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Pasolini, Pier Paolo. "Un'Appendice alla 'Religione': Una luce [An Appendix to 'Religion': The Light]." La religione del mio tempo. [The Religion of My Time]. c. 1961.

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Pasolini, Pier Paolo. "Appendice alla 'Religione': Una Luce/Appendix to 'The Religion of My Time: A Light." The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolinia: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Stephen Sartarelli. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Improvisatore. c. 1828.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Improvisatore." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems, edited by William Keach. Penguin Classics, 1997.

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Cowley, Abraham. "Anacreontiques." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, no. 7.