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Violets came and daffodils. But the stillness and the brightness of the day were as strange as the chaos and tumult of night, with the trees standing there, and the flowers standing there, looking before them, looking up, yet beholding nothing, eyeless, and thus terrible.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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I have come to a still, but not a deep center,A point outside the glittering current;

Theodore Roethke, from “The Far Field”, Selected Poems

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All I can do is sit still and consume as much of my own smoke as possible.

Virginia Woolf, from The Voyage Out

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No one else she knew had her knack of keeping still, of moving gently through her thoughts, as one might explore a new garden.

Ian McEwan, Atonement

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All was still. The moon hung not out her lamp, and the stars faintly glimmered in the summer sky; the breath of night slept among the leaves of the forest.

William Blake, from "The Couch of Death", Poetical Sketches

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Far away you turn your head: through still grass the wind moves into a human language and the darkness comes, the long nights pass into stationary darkness. Only the sea moves.

Louise Glück, from "The Swimmer", The House on Marshland

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