"Its darkness under roots, under old flood-battered boles
Was dark as blood,
Rusty peaty blood-dark, old-blood dark."
Hughes
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"....earth-bowel brown....."
Hughes
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“The quiet sense of something lost”
Tennyson
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"Potential fossils, future deposits, we must scratch their darkness in order to see"
Sinclair
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"There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth"
Nietzsche
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"Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders"
Ellis
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“The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.”
Poe
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"To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges..."
Hurd
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"All I know is a door into the dark"
Heaney
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"You may wash out the sand,
but never the sound
of the ghost of the sea
that is haunting me"
Hughes