"Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things."

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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

— Rachel Carson