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James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
Book I
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem
“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Variant: How sweet to be a cloud
Floating in the blue.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
“Floating down a river named Emotion…will I make it back to shore, or drift into the unknown?”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Morning View (2001)
Sengai (1750–1837) Japanese artist
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
“Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.”
Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host
Ann Curry (September 22, 2004) "Painter Bob Ross remains an iconic figure years after his death", NBC News.
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Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Ich lege die Ruder ein und fahre endlos, wie einem ewigen Gestade zu. Mondlicht spielt blau auf meinem Segel. Mein Nachen gleitet in einen sicheren Hafen. Nur leise schlagen die Wellen an meinen Kahn. Die tiefste Stille ist um mich, und meine Seele spannt eine goldene Brücke zu einem Stern.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
“Low stir of leaves and dip of oars
And lapsing waves on quiet shores.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow ripple
Breaks, blindly, against the shore.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
"Seagulls on the Serpentine"
Songs of Shadow-of-a-leaf and other poems (1924)