
“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
Source: The Diamond Sutra
“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
No. 381 (17 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”
Source: Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979), p. 50
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: We and it and all together flashing through the starry spaces
In a tempest dream of beauty lighting up the place of places.
Half our eyes behold the glory: half within the spirit's glow
Echoes of the noiseless revels and the will of beauty go.
By a hand of fire uplifted—to her star-strewn palace brought,
To the mystic heart of beauty and the secret of her thought:
“Bubble, bubble, flows the stream
Like an old tune through a dream.”
In Haunts of Bass and Bream.
Source: The Stars in their Courses (1931), p. 3.
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 1: Puget Sound and British Columbia
1910s