“This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved”
Introductory poem.
Poems (1869)
Context: This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved:
Its pines have human tones; its billows wear
The color and the sparkle of dear eyes.
Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands
That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful
Because of something lovelier than themselves,
Which breathes within them, and will never die. —
Haunted,—but not with any spectral gloom;
Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.
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Lucy Larcom 25
American teacher, poet, author 1824–1893Related quotes
"Dolce far Niente", Stanza 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”
The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355
Nonfiction
“Tell David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I'll come back and bloody haunt him.”
Deathbed statement. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8059107/Agony-aunt-Claire-Rayners-deathbed-warning-to-haunt-Cameron-over-NHS.html
Mi voz me dice: “Así es todo”.
Y el eco de mi voz me dice: “Así eres tú”.
Voces (1943)
With Open Hands (1972)
Context: To pray means to open your hands before God. It means slowly relaxing the tension which squeezes your hands together and accepting your existence with an increasing readiness, not as a possession to defend, but as a gift to receive. Above all, prayer is a way of life which allows you to find a stillness in the midst of the world where you open your hands to God’s promises and find hope for yourself, your neighbor and your world. In prayer, you encounter God not only in the small voice and the soft breeze, but also in the midst of the turmoil of the world, in the distress and joy of your neighbor and in the loneliness of your own heart.
LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods