" Fragmentary Blue http://www.ketzle.com/frost/fragblue.htm", st. 1 (1923) <br class="br">1920s
“The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.”
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
A Winter Piece http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page24, st. 3 (1821)
George Wade Robinson (1838–1877) Irish poet
"Loved with Everlasting Love," Baptist Hymn Book (Pasalms and & Hymns Trust, London, 1962)
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"To my mother" [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 49
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Lost Pleiad
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Xuân Diệu (1916–1985) Vietnamese poet
"Foreword to a book of poems", in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Yale University Press, 1996), <small>ISBN 978-0300064100</small>
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think "this must be heaven."”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain — which started a fraction of a second later — was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain — unique, unmistakable.
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
