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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes
“Many ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,”
W.B. Yeats
book
The Tower
I, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
Context: Many ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,
protected from the circle of the moon
That pitches common things about.
“To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
Walt Whitman
(1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Miracles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.”
Source: House of Leaves
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), pp. 76-77.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
(1768–1834) German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar
[On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, 1893, London, Paul, Trench, Trubner, 23, Second Speech: The Nature of Religion]
On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (1799)
Introduction “The Human Bumblebee” (p. xxi)
The Botany of Desire (2001)
“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
Walt Whitman
(1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist