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“God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.”

“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

“The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”

Sky Listening Garden Gathering

Author:John Keats

“What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?”

Stars Sky Scripture Word Of God Orbs

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.”

Opportunity Stars Sky Despair Flow Ships Uplifting Streams Dry Leap Where You Are Buckets Afar

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.”

Sometimes Eye Novel Sky Mirrors Blue Mud Highways

Author:Stendhal

“I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.”

Feels Sky Tiny Rejection Overwhelming Rejected Immensity

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.”

Mind Humans Soul Body Beautiful Sky Mountain Green Rose Depth Noble Mysterious Grass Mechanism Canvas Carpet Human Body Scenery Magnanimity Azure Green Grass Depth Of Love

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.”

Wells Said Light Sea Sky Advice One Day Draws Appreciate Blue Blue Sky

Author:Claude Monet

“With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.”

Men Heart Littles Done Hands Turns House Work Alive Sky Dresses Seeds Golden Dry Brown Feds Spades

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.”

Light Dark Silence Sky Dying Balance Empty Flight Hawks

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“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

“We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.”

Universe Stars Sky

Author:Leonard Cohen

“The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.”

Universe Sky Painting Birth Enlightenment Empty Phenomenal Birth And Death

Author:Dogen

“I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?”

Stars Sky

Book:Juno and the Paycock and the Plough and the Stars

Source: Juno and the Paycock and the Plough and the Stars

“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

“No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.”

“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.”

Home Kids School Sky Son Drawing Diamond Lucy Lsd

Author:Paul McCartney

“All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.”

Giving Art Music Novel Sky Share Lonely Paint Interpretation Altruism Ensemble

Book:Friends and fiddlers

Source: Friends and fiddlers

“I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.”

Reason Emotion Sadness Sky Tears Grass Sunshine Melancholy Provence

Author:Paul Cezanne

“I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them.”

Knows Wells Doubt Sky Anxiety No Doubt Execution Neglected

Book:Constable: paintings, drawings and watercolours

Source: Constable: paintings, drawings and watercolours

“The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.”

Light Sky Source

Book:John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science

Source: John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science

“My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.”

Light Might Used Felt Cities Imagine Sky Mountain Lows Oneself Weather Evening Britain Marine Right Direction Seattle Damp Lingering Homely Latitude

Book:Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

Source: Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

“Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.”

Sky Sweet Spring Calm Rage Heat Breeze Zephyr

Author:Catullus

“The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.”

Sky Evening Scent Bent Violet Dew Evening Sky

Book:The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese

Source: The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese

“God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names.”

Earth Names Animal Saws Sky Grew Kings Angel Lays Christmas Instant Shelter Flocks Luminous Illiterate Newborn Trough Animal Shelter

Book:The Jesus I Never Knew

Source: The Jesus I Never Knew

“Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.”

Sky Color Wall Red Opposites Harmony Extremes Brilliant Soil Harsh Orange Crude Slopes Tiles Greenery Cobalt

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.”

Ifs World Writing Sleep Doors Sky Insulation

Book:Portrait of Myself

Source: Portrait of Myself

“On film Vanilla Sky: You're going to get the full experience of what love is.”

Film Love Is Sky Vanilla

Author:Tom Cruise

“Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.”

Lasts Night Heaven Dark Sun Sky Color Reflection Blue Green Tone Colour Pale Charming Fluid Plunge Delicacy Unheard Indescribable Turquoise Dark Blue

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.”

Persons Able Water Prayer Sky Painting Wind Bed Each Day Being The Best Tonight Waking Dedication Barrels Best Person

Author:Morris Graves

“You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.”

Giving Light Lines Sun Sky Direct Overhead

Book:Winslow Homer

Source: Winslow Homer

“You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.”

People Knows Writing Looks Different Tree Sky Streets Granted Beach Shops Oaks Oak Tree

Author:Neil Gaiman

“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 have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.”

Lying White Sea Sky Color Swim Infinity Beaten Torn

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.”

People Nations Ability Sky Greatness Spring Lifts Conception Abiding Majestic Absorption

Author:Alexander Crummell

“Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.”

Fall Sky Accidents Planes

Author:Mary Schiavo

“Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!”

Doe Form Black White Sky Photography Ordinary Relation Blue Mess Tone Colour Yellow Plates Lenses Sunflower Travesty

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.”

Eye Stars Lines Sky Stupid Cheesy

Author:Jamelia

“When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.”

People Dream Eye Hell Sky Staring Blindness After Death Blinded Blessedness Quiver

Author:Gerrard Winstanley

“The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.”

Whole Moments Artist Black Sky Red Blue Busy Gray Blue Sky Rejuvenation Gray Skies

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Seems Journey Sky Becoming Empty Flash Lightning Illuminating

Author:Adyashanti

“To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.”

Ifs Doe Dream Night Water Views Vision Sky Birth Empty Absolutes Profound Point Of View Grass Fixed Emptiness Flood Blades Moonlight Duality Night Sky Drop Of Water Blades Of Grass

Author:Adyashanti

“We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky”

Water Air Sky Drink Ocean Breathe Oneness

Author:Anwar Fazal

“Stars of heaven, clear and bright, Shine upon this Christmas light, Vaster far than midnight skies Are its timeless mysteries.”

Light Heaven Stars Clear Mystery Sky Shining Christmas Timeless Midnight Night Sky Christmas Lights

Author:Timothy Dudley-Smith

“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.”

Ifs May Feelings Artist Views Sky Shapes Mountain Experience Response Paint Finished Canvas Soar Evoke

Author:Lawren Harris

“Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.”

Thinking World Eye Space Views Vision Sky Infinite Seclusion Vantage Point Infinite Space

Author:Charles E. Burchfield

“All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.”

Water Air Sky Fields Lows Blue Green Wings South Golden Lakes Silver Autumn Fall Autumn Autumn Days Autumn Inspirational Green Fields Blue Water

Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.”

Looks Earth Happiness Vision Air Sky Spring Blue Wings Poetry Is Butterfly April Springtime Frail Like A Butterfly Butterfly Wings

Book:Joyce Kilmer

Source: Joyce Kilmer

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