“A substitute for all the gods:
This self, not that gold self aloft,
Alone, one's shadow magnified,
Lord of the body, looking down,
As now and called most high,
The shadow of Chocorua
In an immenser heaven, aloft,
Alone, lord of the land and lord
Of the men that live in the land, high lord.
One's self and the mountains of one's land,
Without shadows, without magnificence,
The flesh, the bone, the dirt, the stone.”
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
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Wallace Stevens278
American poet 1879–1955Related quotes
Glen Cook book Shadows Linger
Source: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 1, “Juniper” (p. 223; opening words)
Rainer Maria Rilke book The Book of Images
Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß.
Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren,
und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los.
Herbsttag (Autumn Day) (as translated by Cliff Crego)
Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Images) (1902)
“Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.”
Henry Wotton (1568–1639) English ambassador
The Character of a Happy Life (1614), stanza 6. Compare: "As having nothing, and yet possessing all things", 2 Corinthians vi. 10.
“Le Pays Sans Ombre ("The Land Without Shadow"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1994,”
Abdourahman A. Waberi (1965) Djiboutian writer
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Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899), The Man With the Hoe (1898)
Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 536.
“The people will be free and God alone will be their Lord.”
Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525) early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War
Letter to the Princes as cited in The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods, p. 109 https://books.google.com/books?id=MeFSqubf6VAC&pg=PA107
