“up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky…”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
“up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky…”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Mirkka Rekola (1931–2014) Finnish writer
From Taivas päivystää (The Sky's on Duty, 1996. 88 Poems, WSOY, 2000, ISBN 951-0-24783-9. Translated by Anselm Hollo).
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) Austrian-American composer
"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of November 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 210
1920s
James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882) Scottish writer (1834-1882)
Sunday at Hampstead (1863–65), part X
Ernest Hemingway book Fathers and Sons
Nick Adams of "Fathers and Sons" in Winner Take Nothing (1932)
“To design a flying machine is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.”
Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896) German aviation pioneer
Widely attributed to Lilienthal, this was actually an 1898 statement by Ferdinand Ferber dedicated to Lilienthal, published in L'Aviation; ses debuts son developpement [Aviation, its debut and devopment] (1908), translated into German as Die Kunst zu Fliegen [The Art of Flight] (1910).
Misattributed