“And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Source: Renascence and Other Poems
“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”
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“The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Midnight Mass, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
"Haunted by Halloween", in the New York Times (31 October 1990).
Context: Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.
“In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.”
Stephen Fry book The Hippopotamus
Source: The Hippopotamus
“Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.”
Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1769) Japanese Zen Buddhist master
As quoted in Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game by Larry W. Phillips
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 111
“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
"The Amber Bead" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.
Hesperides (1648)