"The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows."

Expressive, Beauty, Sadness, Nature, Symbolism

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"The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows."

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"Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Expressive, Life, Light, Perception, Reality

"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Expressive, Nature, Sea, Sky, Calm

"The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

Expressive, Beauty, Sadness, Nature, Symbolism

"It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Expressive, Sadness, Tears, Darkness, Emotion

"A vast and fiery nuclear furnace launched photons through the reaches of space; they hurtled trillions of kilometers at breakneck speed, then filtered gently into the bedroom as shafts of dawn sunlight."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Expressive, Space, Light, Dawn

"Air of dustFor a moment I was a storm cloud,All righteous booming thunder;All sharp and pinning,Dazzling.Once the flashing fadedA sizzling prong sprang upwards.I was positively popped.The static situationStruck meNegatively, And I leaked out sulfur on the peopleWho dared hold up the sky.Strong storms are still bonelessAnd mostly all alone."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Expressive, Wonder, Praise, Curiosity, Emotion

"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."

John Eaton, American Politician

Expressive, Potential

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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"

Labor, Work, Humility, Respect, Equality

"There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief."

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Truth, Memory

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Awareness, Culture, Ignorance, Privilege, Perspective

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