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Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?
— Francis Quarles
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And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.
— Mary Oliver
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