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• When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sky, Clouds

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.280, Shambhala Publications

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• Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

  Edwin Morgan

  Rain, Kissing, Eyelashes

  Edwin Morgan (2011). “A Book of Lives”, p.42, Carcanet

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• There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wall, Army, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.339, Broadview Press

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• And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.

  Stan Rice

  Rain, Remember, Like Something

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• Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.

  Frances Densmore

  Dream, Song, Wind

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• Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Eye, Wings

  Robinson Jeffers, “Love The Wild Swan”

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• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fire, Light

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

  Don DeLillo

  Pain, Reality, Lightning

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Choices, Solitude, World

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.353, Faber & Faber

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• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  Walt Whitman

  Military, War, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man-suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death-and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Jesus, Heart, Men

  John Bertram Phillips (1984). “The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Strong, Air

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• This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Men, Light

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.182, Vintage

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• A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Time, Fall, Moon

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

  William Butler Yeats

  Earthquakes, Toil, Shells

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• Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

  Rumi

  Voice, Roots, Long

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• He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

  Herman Melville

  Devil, Baggage, Obstinacy

  1851 Of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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• When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

  Mark Twain

  Ocean, Creativity, Sleep

  Mark Twain (2011). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, p.320, NewSouth Books

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• Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.

  Toni Morrison

  Pain, Eye, Storm

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 27, 2011

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• I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Creativity, Eye, Air

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• Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sadness, Cities

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• Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

  Dylan Thomas

  Moon, Men, Wind

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• Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Summer, Pain, Secret

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• When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars,
  And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

  Horace

  Fear, War, Atheism

  "The Works of Horace".

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• O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Gun, Soldier

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.502, Courier Corporation

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