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“Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

Play Spirit Time Wise Fool Clouds Mock

Author:William Shakespeare

“When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.”

Men Hands Fall Wise Winter Clouds Sunset Cloaks Storm Clouds

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers

“Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.”

Form Waiting Shapes Chaos Clouds Storm Swarms

Author:Robert Frost

“Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.”

Has Beens Girl Black Clouds Grandmother Rainbow My Grandmother Sexually Barefoot Arkansas Black Girl

Author:Maya Angelou

“This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.”

Shows Care Together Shining Clouds Occasions Rainbow Conferences Shining Down

Author:Maya Angelou

“Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.”

Want Possibility University Clouds Rainbow

Author:Maya Angelou

“Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.”

Art Music Ocean Music Is Clouds Wave Fluid Reverie Vapor

Author:Victor Hugo

“Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.”

Giving Father Hours Morning Sun Sky Sweet Flow Clouds Thee Waking Incense Rosy

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.”

Littles Hours Path Sea Sweet Mets Lonely Clouds Speed Ships Mist Converses Foam Lonely Path

Author:Alexander Smith

“If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!”

Ifs Heart Kind May Matter Would Be Waiting Behinds Brother Late Messages Patience Clouds Single Word Brother Sister Words Of Courage Sister Friend

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.”

Beautiful Night Heaven Break Air Silent Clouds Mist Serene Stains Freshness Specks Silent Night

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.”

Moving Half Sky Clouds Fierce Eagles Liquid Dove Trembling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

“Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.”

Eye Essentials Mercy Clouds

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.”

People Men Looks Heart Young Waiting Too Much Hundred Murder Clouds Terror Dawn Young Man Valleys Dusk Chimneys Valley Of Death

Book:The Valley of Fear

Source: The Valley of Fear

“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”

Years Littles Remember White Four Sky Tears Spring Blue Wings Clouds Grass Little Things Ducks Ponds Blue Sky White Clouds

Author:William Allingham

“Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.”

White Wind Clouds Wave Ships Instant Pale Sailor Freeze Trembling Deck Tempest Howl Foam Shrouds Masts Storm Clouds

Book:The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates

Source: The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates

“Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.”

Giving Stills Light Dying Moon Clouds Flying Dawn Worn Quills Width Giving Light

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.”

Needs Enough Earth House Water Everyday Clouds Wave Scent Aquariums Nocturnal

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.”

States United Numbers United States Economic Performances Clouds Tendencies Uncertainty Outlook Projection Clouded

Author:Alan Greenspan

“I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!”

Love Clouds Lovely

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.”

Ifs Looks Sides Clouds Gray Marble Hallways Stairways

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.”

House Wind Moon South Clouds Blast Gale Chimneys Smitten

Author:Robert Bridges

“Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.”

May Light Heaven White Spring Clouds Milk Flocks Goeth White Clouds

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.”

Would Be Dark Week Rain Clouds Relief Gray Apartment Ceilings Manhattan Dripping

Author:Joan Didion

“Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.”

Air Sky Sight Clouds Snow Substance Shed Floating Bosoms Gloomy Chilly

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”

Art Lying Values Art Is Weakness Clouds Grass Works Of Art Brotherhood Static Evanescence

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.”

Play Earth Lying Sea Sky Creatures Ocean Mark Blue Bounds Rounds Clouds Wide Regions Blue Ocean

Author:Bryan Procter

“When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.”

Littles Pain Poverty Sun Path Sky Sticks Clouds Passing Passings Righteousness Hiding Splendor Little Time Passing Through

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.”

Men Grace Tree Fruit Clouds Milk Cows Barren No Love Moisture

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.”

Heart Pain Silence Cold Evolution Shadow Clouds Sparks Ashes Rapture Dusk Larks

Book:Poems by John B Tabb

Source: Poems by John B Tabb

“However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.”

May Enough Light Hope Sides Dark Clouds

Book:The New Life

Source: The New Life

“When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.”

Seems Black Failure Losing Clouds Following Silver Black Clouds

Author:Mario Andretti

“Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.”

Men Heart Hands Lying Desire Easy Waiting Views Behinds Sick Sight Difficulty Salvation Clouds Possession Accomplishment Trust In God Presence Of God Afar Perplexity

Author:Owen Wilson

“Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.”

Love Heart Soul Love Is Fire Clouds Burning Smoke Flames Aspire Windy

Book:Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

“The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.”

Earth Clouds Caught Flames Sunset Roof Brushes Copper

Book:Down Half the World

Source: Down Half the World

“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

Thinking Feels Looks Littles Has Beens Real Country Nature Walks Rocks Painting Paint Clouds Studios Woods Each Day Living Things Diagrams

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.”

Ifs Knows Morning Saws Sky Mountain Western Clouds Sunrise Candy Cotton Cotton Candy Western Sky

Author:Chris LeDoux

“I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.”

People Clouds Auditions Casting Overcast

Author:Jay London

“We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better.”

Rain Clouds Seattle Sao Paulo

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.”

Feels Firsts I Can Football First Time Clouds Bowls Super Bowl Pro Football

Author:Ricky Williams

“The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.”

Government Land Clouds Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Cuckoos

Author:Bob Brown

“However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.”

Ifs May Plans Sacrifice Tree Rivers Clouds Hills Colour Conform Exquisite

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.”

Body Age Cities Darkness Brother Huge Clouds Old Age Dust Frail Overtaking

Author:Guru Gobind Singh

“That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.”

People Thinking Black Results Baseball Clouds Steroid Black Clouds

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“Revelations are found in clouds.”

Found Clouds Revelations

Book:Urban Shaman

Source: Urban Shaman

“Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.”

Natural Clouds Block Sunlight

Author:David Travis

“You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.”

Acting Hot Clouds Storm Atmosphere Heat Towers Tropical Chimneys Storm Clouds

Author:Peter May

“Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.”

Wonder Movement Elements Paint Clouds Landscape Fascinating Free Movement

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.”

Able Wind Clouds Speed Scales Height Regions Measurement Pioneering Plasma

Author:Antony Hewish

“To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.”

Effort Trouble Becoming Clouds Floats Becoming One

Author:Robert Genn