“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.” GivingMindLittlesBookWishWalksGriefHalfTreeSadnessMoonSpeechOrdinaryShadowBillsNeighborCuriousOddSurprisingWetOrdinary LifeTelescopesMicroscopesTwigs Author:Marianne Boruch
“Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.” LittlesRealMovingIgnoranceIllusionShadowSubstance Author:Frederick Lenz
“The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.” MenMeanLittlesSufferingPleasureKnowingBirdShadowWingsCarefulMelodyRomeEaglesGiddy Author:William Shakespeare
“These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.” LittlesTurnsHeavenHellFateShadowCastsShipsUnconsciousSlipsTriflesRuddersHeaven Or Hell Book:Life in the Iron-Mills Source: Life in the Iron-Mills
“I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.” LittlesLightEyeHouseStrongMemoriesTreeShadowScalesSpotsEveningAtmosphereColourCanvasMoscowStripesSaturatedMunich Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.” HeartLittlesSufferingTurnsFeetMy HeartHonorKissingShadowCrossesFleshOver ItAdoreUnworthyHail Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.” MenWantFeelsLittlesFeelingsPastHouseLeftFeltPerfectPoorPovertyDangerShadowSafetyWingsProtectionChickensShelterAlmightyRoyalCalmnessPoor ManAnnualsPensionHensRoyal FamilyPerfect Peace Author:Christmas Evans
“Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.” FeelsTryingLittlesActorsVoiceEffortQualityAudienceWallLaughterShadowResponseBoxesTheatreScreensIntimateCharmPerformersApplauseMirthAppreciativeOasis Author:Robertson Davies