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Letter "H" » here and there
«There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.»
Author: Heinz R. Pagels
| About:
Existence
| Keywords:
Before and After, emptiness, here and there, plenum, sprang, The Void, void
«Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?»
«We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
anesthetized, chronological, chronological sequence, convenient, dates, here and there, paste, pasted, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling, sequence, spiral, spiraling, spirals, table, The Sequence
«When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
get away, here and there, tangle, tangled, text
«The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
collected, dry rot, here and there, liable, luxuriant, man of science, moss, mosses, public works, rot, sprout, sprouting, timber, yards
«The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
cities, close to, distant, here and there, inhabited, rivers
«Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
authors, gems, Good Work, Great Books, here and there, scattered, the country, thoroughly
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