Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926) American politician
Said in opposition to federal funding of conservation efforts; reported in Blair Bolles, Tyrant from Illinois (1951), p. 119.
“Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to Benjamin Bailey (March 13, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
“In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse”
Ryōkan (1758–1831) Japanese Buddhist monk
As translated in Haiku : Spring (1950) by Reginald Horace Blyth
Context: In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse;
The flowering branches are
of themselves, some short, some long.
“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
“Spring Music,” p. 34
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Conversations with Atoms”
Timothy Quill (1901–1960) Early Dáil member, cooperative organiser, agriculturalist
Irish Independent (1943)
By Quill:, 1940s
“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer