“So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dennis Miller (1953) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor
"Washington, D.C."
Ranting Again
Charles Hamilton Aide (1826–1906) French writer
The Danube River, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet
A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)
Context: Then as he sang
it was no longer sounds only that made the music:
he spoke, and as no tree listens I listened, and language
came into my roots
out of the earth,
into my bark
out of the air,
into the pores of my greenest shoots
gently as dew
and there was no word he sang but I knew its meaning.
“Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 146