Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
I think descriptions of nature should be very short and always be a propos. Commonplaces like 'The setting sun, sinking into the waves of the darkening sea, cast its purple gold rays, etc,' 'Swallows, flitting over the surface of the water, twittered gail.
All life leaps out to greet the light --
The shining sea-gulls dive and soar,
The swallows whirl in dizzy flight,
And sandpeeps flit along the shore.
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem 'Let us move east to the Stone Mountains.' Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world. Summer 1954
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues.
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom by thought I comprehend the world.
Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck through thought I grasp it.
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