James Vincent Cunningham

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    no images of pastoral will,
    But fear, thirst, hunger, and huddled chill.
    —James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985)

    Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
    Come and see my shining palaces built upon the sand.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
    A wind that follows fast
    And fills the white and rustling sail
    And bends the gallant mast;
    —Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)