“Just like the moon, I'll step aside, and let your sun shine while I follow behind…”
"Angel" from Pocketful of Sunshine (2007)
“Just like the moon, I'll step aside, and let your sun shine while I follow behind…”
"Angel" from Pocketful of Sunshine (2007)
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”
“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”
"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Context: You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
“The Duke’s moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.”
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)