Jim Ede (1895–1990) art collector
Introduction,In Engrave Glass:David Peace,Cambridge 1973.
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That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,”
W.B. Yeats book The Tower
I, st. 1 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/ <br class="br">Context: Many ingenious lovely things are gone<br>That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,<br>protected from the circle of the moon<br>That pitches common things about.
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
Poetry and Craft (1965)
“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)
Mark Clifton book They'd Rather Be Right
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)
“And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles”
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Source: Leaves of Grass
Michael Pollan book The Botany of Desire
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