“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Variant: How sweet to be a cloud
Floating in the blue.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
Ann Curry (September 22, 2004) "Painter Bob Ross remains an iconic figure years after his death", NBC News.
Attributed
“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Variant: How sweet to be a cloud
Floating in the blue.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
No.6. The Antiquary.— MARY MAC INTYRE.
Literary Remains
“Floating to shore… riding a low moon… on a slow cloud.”
Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic
John Ross Macduff (1818–1895) Scottish religious writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.
Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
in interview with nl:Ischa Meyer, c. 1988
quote c. 1988 - from ('RM'), 157; p. 41
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”
Charles Simic (1938) American poet
Source: The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems