Cover to “Amazing Spider-Man” #1, Alex Ross, 2015

Marvel Comics.

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“A ship in a harbor is safe …”

“A ship in a harbor is safe but that is not what ships are built for.”

— John A. Shedd (attributed)



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The Ships “Winged Arrow” and “Southern Cross” in Boston Harbor, Fitz Henry Lane, 1853

“The whole future lies in uncertainty …”

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Source: the “Life” Facebook page

Title page of W. H. Auden’s “The Age of Anxiety,” 1947

Random House.

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(And this meme says a clear thing in a blurry way.)

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“The Sea (Rose Pastor Stokes, Caritas Island, Connecticut),” Clarence Hudson White, 1909

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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought …”

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and. the thought has found words.”

—  Robert Frost



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“Winter,” William Holbrook Beard

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“Doubt that the stars are fire …”

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Source: Poetry Lovers Facebook page

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Source: United States Courts

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