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Pablo Neruda136
Chilean poet 1904–1973Related quotes
“and love was lightning and remembrance”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?”
Theodore Sturgeon book E Pluribus Unicorn
Source: E Pluribus Unicorn
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Letter to George Bainton, 15 October 1888, solicited for and printed in George Bainton, The Art of Authorship: Literary Reminiscences, Methods of Work, and Advice to Young Beginners (1890), pp. 87–88 http://books.google.com/books?id=XjBjzRN71_IC&pg=PA87. <br class="br">Twain repeated the lightning bug/lightning comparison in several contexts, and credited Josh Billings for the idea: <br class="br">Josh Billings defined the difference between humor and wit as that between the lightning bug and the lightning. <br class="br">Speech at the 145th annual dinner of St. Andrew's Society, New York, 30 November 1901, Mark Twain Speaking (1976), ed. Paul Fatout, p. 424 <br class="br">Billings' original wording was characteristically affected: <br class="br">Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az mutch difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug. <br class="br">Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, "January 1871" http://books.google.com/books?id=sUI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PT30. Also in Everybody's Friend, or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor (1874), p. 304 http://books.google.com/books?id=7rA8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304 <br class="br">Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
Jon Anderson (1944) English singer
Lyrics of "Loved by the Sun", on the soundtrack of the film Legend (1986).
“It must be done like lightning.”
Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
Act iv, Scene v
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, "January 1871" http://books.google.com/books?id=sUI1AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Don't+mistake+vivacity+for+wit+thare+iz+about+az+mutch+difference+az+thare+iz+between+lightning+and+a+lightning+bug%22&pg=PT30#v=onepage (1870)
