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«This life's dim windows of the soulDistorts the heavens from pole to poleAnd leads you to believe a lieWhen you see with, not through, the eye.»

Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: dim, dimmed, dimming, dims, distorts, heavens, leads, pole, poles, The Eye, This Life, windows

«Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: astonished, barely, blot, clods, close down, cluster, clusters, far-off, Fifty one, hold off, I Tried, knock, knock off, last but not least, missing, pole, poles, pole star, put in, shots, showed, The Black

«The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: equator, poles, washing

«To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.»

Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: latest, pole, poles, prelude, preludes, transmit

«You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.»

Author: Vincent van Gogh (Painter) | Keywords: color line, equator, pole, poles

«The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.»

Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: axes, center, covered, disturbed, enormous, loyalties, no-good, number one, pole, poles, sleeps, sustained, trips, wantonly

«There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.»

Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: avoided, errors, poles, possess, virtues

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