“I must work on my mind. For now I realise:
Everyone of us has a heaven inside.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.”
Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted in Calculusː Multivariable (2006) by Steven G. Krantz and Brian E. Blank. p. 126
Unsourced variant: I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
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Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 94
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The earth, for us, is flat and bare.
There are no shadows.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry,
Of the torches wisping in the underground,
Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light.
There are no shadows in our sun,
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There are no shadows anywhere.
The earth, for us, is flat and bare.
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“A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.”
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Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
Beau ciel, vrai ciel, regarde-moi qui change!
Après tant d'orgueil, après tant d'étrange
Oisiveté, mais pleine de pouvoir,
Je m'abandonne à ce brillant espace,
Sur les maisons des morts mon ombre passe
Qui m'apprivoise à son frêle mouvoir.
As translated by by C. Day Lewis
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Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001)
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (1958), p. 42
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young Lautrec comments his own paintings of the landscape, when he was c. 15 years old.
Source: 1879-1884, T-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot, p. 46 - remark to his friend Etienne Devismes - in Nice, 1879