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“Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.”

Ifs Men Different Lord Figures Example Color Dresses Old Man Tranquility Battlefields Armor Colorful Attending Helmet Banquets Kimonos

Author:Matsuo Basho

“We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.”

Mean Has Beens Shows Young Lord Darkness Wife Color Consequence Skins Curse Native Instruction Native American Young Women Messengers Marrying Polygamy Transgression Pristine Intermarriage

Author:Brigham Young

“The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.”

Matter Lord Color Amount No Matter What Equality Nourishment

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.”

Men Earth Religion Race Lord Color Conscience Distinction Greatest Gifts Gift From God Freedom Of Religion Race And Color

Book:Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents

Source: Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents

“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”

Self Poetry Time Sound Lord Color Poet Perception Versions Weather Block Sovereign Fragrance

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“In Lords of Rainbow I start out by taking away color from the world, and in the process show color's vital place in our lives. At least I hope that by the end of the book it's a portion of what the reader comes away with - a sense of how much color perception enriches our lives and how its lack can make our sensory experience incomplete.”

World Book Ends Shows Process Lord Our Lives Color Reader Perception Portions Rainbow Incomplete Sensory

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.”

People Ifs World Believe I Believe Lord Color Degrees Blind Affected Rainbow Colorless Monochrome

Author:Vera Nazarian