★ Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas.

• Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

★ The raven by Edgar Allan Poe.

• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;

★ The haunted palace by Edgar Allan Poe*

• And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody; While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but smile no more.

★ A dream within a dream by Edgar Allan Poe.

• Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

★ Alone by Maya Angelou.

• Now if you listen closely I'll tell you what I know Storm clouds are gathering The wind is gonna blow The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, 'Cause nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.

★ O me! O life! by Walt Whitman.

• That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

★ Boot Theory by Richard Siken.

• A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.

★ Snow and Dirty Rain by Richard Siken.

• We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.