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E.E. Cummings 208
American poet 1894–1962Related quotes
“The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 8
“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction. Compare: "The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before", Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book ii (1605)
“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”
“A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ”
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 52
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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
