“There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.”

Straight from the Heart, written by Bryan Adams and Eric Kagna
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)

The Wrong Box, ch. 8.

I am
Variant: Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
Source: I Am That
Context: "I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says 'I am everything'. Wisdom says "I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both."

Source: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

From the 1987 song "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
From songs

Innkeeper
A Child is Born (1942)
Context: Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls,
Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars —
They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble,
Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy
That something new is coming to the world,
The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming,
And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Where Do the Children Play?
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)