“And what is Life? — An hour-glass on the run”
"What is Life?"
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John Clare 21
English poet 1793–1864Related quotes
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Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: The Glass is cut, The Bottle run dry. Our love runs cold in the caverns of the night
“Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
Source: Macbeth, Act I, scene iii.
“You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.”
"Eyesight and glasses" in Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 7, (January 1952).
“I feel that
these glass shoes are too fragile
for running through this era.”
Beautiful Fighters
Lyrics, Secret
Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
an inscription in French title, (translated) – instruction of his artwork, 1918; as quoted from 'Looking at Dada' ed. Sarah Blyth / Edward Powers, MoMa museum, New York 2006, p. 13
1915 - 1925