“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely—flowers.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
"Israfel", st. 7 (1831).
"Shining Stars".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely—flowers.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
"Israfel", st. 7 (1831).
“dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets”
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell
Frank Loesser (1910–1969) American songwriter
The Ballad of Rodger Young http://www.wegrokit.com/shines.htm
Melanie C (1974) British singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
"The Moment You Believe" (co-written with Peter-John Vettese) · YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=519yuRHApfY <br class="br">This Time (2007)
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
William Boulting, in Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (1916) online excerpt http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/texts/Bruno's%20Eroici.htm <br class="br">Context: Of Bruno, as of Spinoza, it may be said that he was "God-intoxicated." He felt that the Divine Excellence had its abode in the very heart of Nature and within his own body and spirit. Indwelling in every dewdrop as in the innumerable host of heaven, in the humblest flower and in the mind of man, he found the living spirit of God, setting forth the Divine glory, making the Divine perfection and inspiring with the Divine love.
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Bridge over Troubled Water
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Secret of the Machines, Stanza 8.
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