“There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.The early lilacs became part of this child,And grass and white and red morning glories, and white and red clover,And the song of the phoebe-bird,And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side,And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the beautiful curious liquid,And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.”

“And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters; and the name of the star is called wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”

“She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.”

“Maybe the only reason I like him is because I had a crush on him for so long it became a part of me.”

“Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.”

“...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.”