Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Alphabet" [Alfabet] from "Five Children's Songs" (1934), trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 239
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“"Coming events cast their shadows before" quoted the clergyman…”
Source: Dashpers http://www.dashper.net.nz/dashpers.htm (unfinished, unpublished novel), Chapter Two - A House is built
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Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Lochiel's Warning http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/48723 (1802), a poem regarding "Gentle Lochiel", Donald Cameron of Lochiel, and the final defeat of his forces and other Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, in which he was badly wounded.
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
Quoted in John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert Westbrook (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 440; cited in Understanding Power http://www.understandingpower.com/Chapter9.htm#f16| (2002) by Noam Chomsky, ch. 9, footnote 16; originally from "The Need for a New Party" (1931) by John Dewey, Later Works 6, http://books.google.com/books?id=0xPFJ2uwpbIC&lpg=PA163&ots=dd3ciwpXoJ&dq=%22shadow%20cast%22%20dewey&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false| p. 163. (Via Westbrook.) <br class="br">Misc. Quotes
“If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth.”
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Context: If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.<!--IX, p.91
“Even a single hair casts its shadow.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 228 http://books.google.com/books?id=_QQSAAAAIAAJ&q=&quot;even+a+single+hair+casts+its+shadow&quot;&pg=PA28#v=onepage <br class="br">Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Hans Frank (1900–1946) German war criminal
To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 37
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) Tamil politician and social reformer
Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 511.
Untouchability
“dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets”
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell