“Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart’s content, the fog won’t lift.”
The Expelled (1946)
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Samuel Beckett122
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989Related quotes
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
“As the fog was lifting a voice come chanting:
This land was made for you and me.”
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician
This is one of the more variable of the stanzas; other renditions include:
Where the wind is blowing I go a strolling
The wheat field waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog is lifting and the wind is saying:
This land is made for you and me.
The sun comes shining as I was strolling,
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
The fog was lifting as a voice come chanting:
This land was made for you and me.
This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)
Context: When the sun came shining as I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice come chanting:
This land was made for you and me.
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Note to Stanza 27
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
Context: I have said that God is pleased with nothing but love; but before I explain this, it will be as well to set forth the grounds on which the assertion rests. All our works, and all our labours, how grand soever they may be, are nothing in the sight of God, for we can give Him nothing, neither can we by them fulfil His desire, which is the growth of our soul. As to Himself He desires nothing of this, for He has need of nothing, and so, if He is pleased with anything it is with the growth of the soul; and as there is no way in which the soul can grow but in becoming in a manner equal to Him, for this reason only is He pleased with our love. It is the property of love to place him who loves on an equality with the object of his love. Hence the soul, because of its perfect love, is called the bride of the Son of God, which signifies equality with Him. In this equality and friendship all things are common, as the Bridegroom Himself said to His disciples: I have called you friends, because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.”
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
Mark VII: 1–13, p. 136
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)