“We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
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American poet 1879–1955Related quotes
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“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
in interview with nl:Ischa Meyer, c. 1988
quote c. 1988 - from ('RM'), 157; p. 41
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“We hoped to join like fish and water once:
instead, we're split apart—a stream, a cloud.”
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“O Star (the fairest one in sight)
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud —”
" Take Something Like a Star http://somethingbeautiful.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/robert_frost_to.html" (1949)
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Context: O Star (the fairest one in sight)
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud —
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us that we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says "I burn."