“I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 745.
“I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981) <br class="br">Variant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. <br class="br">Source: The Bell Jar
“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
“And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.”
Maggie Stiefvater (1981) American writer
Prologue
The Raven Cycle Series, The Dream Thieves (2013)
“My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate
O, Porcupine.
Brother, Sister (2006)
“A Persian's heaven is easily made:
'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Intercepted Letters; or The Two-Penny Post Bag, VI (1813).
“I'm in heaven, I'm in heaven
I'm in heaven when you smile, when you smile.”
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)