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“The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.”

Looks Problem Lying Feet Clouds

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.”

Home Lying Heaven Glory Clouds Infancy Eulogy Funeral Memorial

Author:William Wordsworth

“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

“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

“And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”

Lying Poor Behinds Seeing Streets Loneliness Clouds Tiny Flying Smoke Heat Breakfast Bus Lap Frail Railway Windy Partition Lying Men Business Woman Trolleys Women Lie Skylights

Author:John Betjeman

“Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.”

Source: Under the Sunset: And Other Stories

“You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.”

Eye Moving Lying England Clouds Speed Landscape Towers Glances Limbs Herds Steadfast Horizontal These Eyes

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

Men Giving Humans Heart Eye Joy Lying Race Watches Sun Tears Flower Rounds Clouds Blow Setting Settings Thanks Mortality Tenderness Sober Human Heart Palms Too Deep

Author:William Wordsworth

“Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake, They sink in the dark and silent lake.”

Eye Lying Turns Sides Water Dark Praying Flow Silent Clouds Heavy Snow Gentle Lakes Over It Gray Frozen I Pray Mist Flakes Wavering Hang Over

Author:William C. Bryant

“O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!”

Way Lying Behinds Spring Clouds Track Spread Speed Dust Magnificent Reckless Fling Carts

Book:The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

“All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.”

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