Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Örn Úlfar
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
Variant: And I love you," Kieran said. "You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.
Source: Lady Midnight
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Örn Úlfar
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
“blossoming are people…
all the earth has turned to sky
…and i am you are i am we”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
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XAIPE (1950)
Daniel Ladinsky (1948) American poet
From Daniel Ladinsky, The Gift: Poems by Hafiz https://books.google.com/books?id=_cdWZkYE_ZQC (1999), p. 34.
Hafez (1326–1389) Persian poet
From Daniel Ladinsky, The Gift: Poems by Hafiz https://books.google.com/books?id=_cdWZkYE_ZQC (1999), p. 34. This is not a translation or interpretation of any poem by Hafez; http://www.payvand.com/news/09/apr/1266.html it is an original poem by Ladinsky inspired by the spirit of Hafez in a dream. <br class="br">Misattributed
“I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.”
Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
The last phrase is quoted in J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey as "It loved to happen".
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X, 21
Original: (el) ῾Ἐρᾷ μὲν ὄμβρου γαῖα, ἐρᾷ δὲ ὁ σεμνὸς αἰθήρ,᾿ ἐρᾷ δὲ ὁ κόσμος ποιῆσαι ὃ ἂν μέλλῃ γίνεσθαι. λέγω οὖν τῷ κόσμῳ ὅτι σοὶ συνερῶ. μήτι δὲ οὕτω κἀκεῖνο λέγεται, ὅτι: φιλεῖ τοῦτο γίνεσθαι;