{"quotes":[{"text":"A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in the expanse of darkness. After several hours the sheep gradually stopped calling to each other from accross the river banks, and a brittle quiet descended. I desperately wanted to walk down to the water's edge. To see the black river in the moonlight. But a mixture of reason and fear kept me locked along the safe paths high above.","author":"Richard Skelton","tags":["affraid","aloneness","landings","night","poetry","river"],"id":9757,"author_id":"Richard+Skelton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1,"pages":1}}