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E.E. Cummings208
American poet 1894–1962Related quotes
“The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 8
“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction. Compare: "The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before", Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book ii (1605)
“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
“A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 52
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
74 <br class="br"> The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
