Source: A Room with a View
From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.”
Source: The Unexpected Universe
Source: The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.”
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (1932) page 168
Context: No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
“How beautiful they are,
The lordly ones
Who dwell in the hills,
In the hollow hills.”
Faery song from play The Immortal Hour.
“First we look at the hills in the painting,
Then we look at the painting in the hills.”
As quoted in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1935), pp. 99 and 248
Compare:
We're made so that we love
First when we see them painted, things we've passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;
And so they are better, painted,—better to us,
Which is the same thing. Art was given for that;
God uses us to help each other so,
Lending our minds out.
Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855)
“Rapping bout the hood, in the hills is blasphemy, rapping from the hills to the hood is luxury.”
Roaring 20s
Rebel of the Underground (2013)
“We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.”
Act I
Buchanan Dying (1974)
Context: Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
