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«Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
anymore, leaf, leafing, shape, trembling
«October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.»
Author: Hal Borland
| Keywords:
constellation, constellations, enduring, hills, horizon, in sight, leaf, October, once again, once more, wider
«Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.»
«Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.»
«Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
His Resurrection, In books, leaf, leafing, Lord's table, promise, resurrection, resurrections, springtime, written
«The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living»
«The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.»
«One who does all work as an offering to the Lord, abandoning attachment to the results, is as untouched by sin [or Karmic reaction] as a lotus leaf is untouched by water.»
«Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.»
«Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper, Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all, That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Cupid, fain, leaf, rhyme, seal, sheet, sheet of paper, writ
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