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“The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.”

Air Expression Speech Fairs Possession Delicate Petals Pansies

Book:The Writings of Bret Harte

Source: The Writings of Bret Harte

“The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.”

Book Pain Song Voice Air Land Sweet Boxes Storm Melody Italian Delicate Ceilings Gallery Exalted Love And Pain

Book:The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

Source: The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

“Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.”

Mind Would Be Earth Heaven Levels Air Achieve Essence Data Delicate Strict Worthless Inquiry Gross Pursued Accuracy Surveys Suspended Ethereal Mingling

Book:Four Plays

Source: Four Plays

“You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.”

Air Seasons Plant Winter Accidents Forests Native Exposed Delicate Tenacity Greenhouses Firmness

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.”

Science Artist Air Mountain Delicate Finest Slander Owing

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.”

Thinking Way Made Life Is Air Color Grew Grew Up Metaphor Sugar Delicate Old Fashioned Candy Cotton Rainy Rainy Day Cotton Candy

Author:Nikki Giovanni