“And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.”
"Renascence" (1912), st. 3 Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
Context: But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head;
So here upon my back I'll lie
And look my fill into the sky.
And so I looked, and, after all,
The sky was not so very tall.
The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,
And — sure enough! — I see the top!
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I 'most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay 69
American poet 1892–1950Related quotes
“My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.”
Original: (fr) Ma main se sent touchée aussi bien qu’elle touche ; réel veut dire cela, et rien de plus.
Source: Unsourced
Original: (it) Raggiungendomi con le tue mani ed avvertendo le mie dita, sussurro sulle tue labbra la mia infinita voglia di te.
Source: prevale.net
“It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender”
Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
