“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”

Variant: How sweet to be a cloud
Floating in the blue.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

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British author 1882–1956

Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host

Ann Curry (September 22, 2004) "Painter Bob Ross remains an iconic figure years after his death", NBC News.
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“a sky of clouds completely 'out of the blue'… I'm looking, reflecting, and when it suddenly happens: hey, the clouds, and what clouds!”

Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet

in interview with nl:Ischa Meyer, c. 1988
quote c. 1988 - from ('RM'), 157; p. 41
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

“Floating to shore… riding a low moon… on a slow cloud.”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.”

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath

The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation

“Love is such a magic thing. It can make you feel like your floating in the clouds without a trouble in the world.”

Lois Gladys Leppard (1924–2008) American writer

Source: Mandie and the Courtroom Battle

“…but the waters of life are for ever flowing onwards, and little trace do they bear of what clouds have darkened or reddened the waves below as they floated by.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

No.6. The Antiquary.— MARY MAC INTYRE.
Literary Remains

“There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon;
But through the clouds I'll never float
Until I have a little Boat,
Shaped like the crescent-moon.”

William Wordsworth Peter Bell

Prologue, stanza 1.
Peter Bell (1798)

“I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on,
And mingled into one.
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the West.”

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) American writer

Epithalamium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect.”

Truman Capote book Other Voices, Other Rooms

At Jesus Fever's funeral
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

“Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu

Act v, Scene iii.
Richelieu (1839)

“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”

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