“The land is numb.
It stands beneath the feet, and one may come
Walking securely, till the sea extends
Its limber margin, and precision ends.”
"The Slow Pacific Swell"
The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters (1960)
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 125.
“If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around”
Source: Berserk, Vol. 1
2000)[More than big trees, The redwood forest: History, ecology, and conservation of the coast redwoods, 1–6, https://books.google.com/books?id=6T3PeH_EbbYC&pg=PA1] (quote from p. 1
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (2018) cited in " 90% of Malaysian workers do not have social security, says Wan Azizah https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/10/02/dr-wan-azizah-137mil-malaysian-workers-do-not-have-social-security/" on The Star Online, 2 October 2018
“Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.”
" Tithonus http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tith.htm", st. 1 (1860)
Context: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Me only cruel immortality
Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms,
Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the East,
Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn.
Source: The Eagle, 1851, http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/eagle.htm
