A part is greater than the whole; By hints are mysteries to… - Lucy Larcom

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A part is greater than the whole; By hints are mysteries told. The fringes of eternity, — God's sweeping garment-fold, In that bright shred of glittering sea, I reach out for and hold.

Lucy Larcom

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Lucy Larcom (March 5, 1824 – April 17, 1893) was an American poet whose idealistic poems caught the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier.

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If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

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