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Letter "M" » mist
«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
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Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
drench,
drenched,
drenched in,
drenches,
fog,
heavens,
highlight,
highlighted,
highlighting,
highlights,
hostile,
mist,
poetic,
shear,
sheared,
shearing,
shears,
shorn,
skyscraper,
skyscrapers,
swan,
Swans,
swords,
The Fog,
The Mist,
The Swan,
towers
«If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, the mist is dispelled when a woman appears»
«A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.»
«But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
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Critic,
Poet)
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Keywords:
floated,
frosty,
hum,
hush,
hushed,
Hushing,
majestic,
mist,
rejoicing,
The Hum,
The Majestic,
The Mist
«Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
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Essayist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Music
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Keywords:
daily,
fills,
habits,
infinite,
mist,
mists,
mist over,
muffle,
muffled,
muffling,
The Mist
«Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy»
Author: W. H. Auden
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Dramatist,
Editor,
Poet)
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Keywords:
heavy,
mantled,
mantles,
mist,
mists,
mist over,
remote,
remotest,
sob,
sobbed,
sobbing,
sobs,
spin,
The Mist
«But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.»
«Take hold of this (charm) that subjects to immortality (life), may thy life unto old age not be cut off! I bring to thee anew breath and life, not to mist and darkness, do»
«And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? / And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.»
«And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.»
Author: John Milton
(
Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
contagion,
flashy,
foul,
grate,
grated,
grates,
grating,
inwardly,
lean,
look up,
mist,
pipes,
rank,
rot,
straw,
wretched