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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Wordsworth |

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,...

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Alfred Tennyson |

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Percy Bysshe Shelley |