Ernest Debrah (1947–2016) Ghanian politician
On the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), in Will Ross, " Africans wary of Europe's trade offer http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7134407.stm", BBC (8 December, 2007).
“Because the line between,
Wrong and right,
Is the width of a thread,
From a spider's web.
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind.”
Spider's Web, from Piece By Piece (2005)
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John Davies (poet) (1569–1626) English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569
The Immortality of the Soul (c. 1594). Compare:
:"Our souls sit close and silently within / And their own webs from their own entrails spin; / And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such / That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch." John Dryden, Mariage à la Mode, act ii. sc. 1.;
:"The spider’s touch—how exquisitely fine!— / Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Alexander Pope, Epistle i. line 217.
“Keep your right and wrong
I don't need it
keep your black and white
I can't seeǃ”
Mara Balls (1983) Finnish musician
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 258 (translation Daphne Woodward)
1960s
Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet
The Thread of Truth http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/misc/threadtruth.html (1839).
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
From a letter published in The Merry Heart : Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books (1996).
Context: To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.
“The news was highly coloured, even if the print was black and white.”
Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer
Source: The Lost Plot (2017), Chapter 9 (p. 118)
