Quotations About / On: HEAVEN

  • 41.
    Heaven is not like flying or swimming,
    but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare
    (Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Seascape (l. 20-21). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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  • 42.
    Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 339, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 43.
    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
    Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5, l. 168-9 (1604). In response to Horatio's exclamation "O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!"Mwhich followed Hamlet's initial encounter with the ghost.)
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  • 44.
    Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
    Not in position to look too close.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Passing Glimpse.")
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  • 45.
    My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
    Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Claudius, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 3, l. 97-8. Finding his prayers for forgiveness are ineffective.)
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  • 46.
    The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
    (Martin Luther (1483-1546), German leader of the Protestant Reformation. Preface to his translation of the Psalms (1534).)
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  • 47.
    This guest of summer,
    The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
    By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath
    Smells wooingly here.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Banquo, in Macbeth, act 1, sc. 6, l. 3-6. "Martlet" means house-martin, that migrates in winter, and builds nests under the eaves of houses.)
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  • 48.
    O western orb sailing the heaven,
    Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
    As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,
    (Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Memories of President Lincoln (l. 18-20). . . The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.)
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  • 49.
    I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
    (Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. 1907. Eli Stormfield, in "Extracts from Capt. Stormfield's Visit to Heaven," p. 835, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910, Library of America (1992).)
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  • 50.
    If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
    (Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish satirist. letter, Aug. 12, 1720. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, vol. 2, ed. H. Williams (1963).)
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