Simple Lenses

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“Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)