Beautiful poetry and a quote

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Owl Woman's Death Song
"In the Great Night my heart will go out,
Toward me the darkness comes rattling,
In the Great Night my heart will go out." ~ Papago


Song of Two Ghosts
"My friend
This is a wide world
We're traveling over
Walking in the moonlight" ~ Omaha

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"Moon that is a cow, being horned like her,
Moon that is a panther, rapacious of light,
Moon that is a she-bear, a lioness,
Three-headed hound of the moon,
Moon-muse, mother, fountain that rises and falls,
Your daughters do not forget you.
You make their weather. Their blood
Ebbs and flows like the tides you make." ~ Constance Urdang

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"The light can visionary thoughts impart,
And lead the muse to soothe
The suffering heart." ~ Helen Maria Williams

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"What is philosophy?
Oh! World, which was and is, what is cosmogony?
Some people have accused me of misanthropy,
And yet I know no more than the mahogony
That forms this desk, of what they mean -- lycanthropy
I comprehend, for without transformation
Men become wolves on any slight occasion ." ~ Lord Byron