“The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.”
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
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“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes.”
If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.
The Pleasures of Literature (1938), p. 17
“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”
As quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1988) by Robert Byrne
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"On Wit and Humour"
Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)
“Sing, laugh; be happy, be famous;
Each one of you will soon be in the darkness.”
"Sunday Morning"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or an old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Deer walk upon our mountains, and quail
Whistle about us their spontaneous cries;
Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness;
And, in the isolation of the sky,
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)