“And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves
Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight
To divide us forever.”
Chance Meetings (1917)
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American novelist and poet 1889–1973Related quotes
Source: What I Saw At Shiloh (1881), VII
“It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586 http://books.google.com/books?id=jOoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA586
Posthumous attributions
Variant: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
“A tree cannot grow in its parents’ shadows.”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 7 (p. 82)
“Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.”
"Song for a Dark Girl" (l. 11-12), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
David Trimble in: Peace 1996-2000 http://books.google.com/books?id=zCmliED4M_UC&pg=PA114, World Scientific, 2005, p. 114
“There are no shadows anywhere.
The earth, for us, is flat and bare.
There are no shadows.”
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry,
Of the torches wisping in the underground,
Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light.
There are no shadows in our sun,
Day is desire and night is sleep.
There are no shadows anywhere.
The earth, for us, is flat and bare.
There are no shadows.