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Your empty happy body
Swarming in the light
(Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Burning (l. 16-17). . .
No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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the hind
stepped down
into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot
(William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), U.S. poet. As the cat (l. 6-10). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
(Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), U.S. philosopher. Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 88 (1973).)
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Antigone, l. 707.)
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Thou art come to answer
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,
Uncapable of pity, void and empty
From any dram of mercy.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Duke, in The Merchant of Venice, act 4, sc. 1, l. 3-6.
To Antonio, about Shylock; "answer" means defend yourself; "dram" means minute amount.)
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The cloakroom pegs are empty now,
And locked the classroom door,
The hollow desks are dimmed with dust....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The School in August.")
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Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,
One at each little
Pitcher of milk, now empty.
(Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Edge (l. 9-11). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.)
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
(Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), U.S. author. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906).)
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Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Antonio, in Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 4, l. 369-70.
Those who are beautiful on the outside but evil within are like vacant bodies or chests covered over with ornament.)
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