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We near heaven's hills with this,
God's asphodels,
O stay,
stay close,
bend down.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Choros Sequence.")
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Surely you stay my certain own, you stay
My you.
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Love note I: surely.")
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Our Father which art in heaven
Stay there
And we will stay on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty.
(Jacques Prévert (1900-1977), French poet. Pater Noster, Paroles (1946; rev.1949), trans. by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958).
Opening lines.)
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'Stay—stay with us!—rest—thou art
weary and worn!'—
And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay;—
But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.
(Thomas Campbell (1774-1844), Scottish poet. The Soldier's Dream (l. 21-24). . .
Faber Popular Reciter, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Faber and Faber.)
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Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same, I must be going! I'll stay a week or two, I'll stay the summer through, but I am telling you, I must be going!
(Morrie Ryskind, U.S. screenwriter, and Victor Heerman. Captain Jeffery T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx), Animal Crackers, the little ditty Spaulding (Groucho Marx) sings as the famed explorer tries to exit a party thrown in his honor (1929).
This song later became the theme song for Groucho's popular radio and television quiz show "You Bet Your Life." Ryskind adapted this from original Broadway play by George Kaufman, Ryskind, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.)
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A tree swayed overwater.
A voice said:
Stay. Stay by the slip-ooze. Stay.
(Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Visitant (l. 2-4). . .
Poetry in English; an Anthology. M. L. Rosenthal, general ed. (1987) Oxford University Press.)
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He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging. He ceases not to be free, though the desire of some convenience to be had there absolutely determines his preference, and makes him stay in his prison.
(John Locke (1632-1704), British philosopher. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk. 2, ch. 21, sect. 50, p. 265, ed. P. Nidditch, Oxford, Clarendon Press (1975).)
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But he would "stay the course"Mit was his favorite motto.
(Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic. originally published in "Die Neue Rundschau" 23 (Oct. and Nov. 1912). Death in Venice, ch. 2, p. 201, trans. by David Luke, Bantam Classic (1988).
This motto characterizes most succinctly the work ethic of Gustav Aschenbach, the novella's main protagonist.)
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We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 150, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Sweden,
what makes the people dress that way
and those who see you wish to stay?
(Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. A Carriage from Sweden (l. 46-48). . .
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
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