Famous quotes containing the words life and/or thread:
“When Learnings Triumph oer her barbrous Foes
First reard the Stage, immortal Shakespear rose;
Each Change of many-colourd Life he drew,
Exhausted Worlds, and then imagind new:”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky
So this winged hour is dropped to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882)
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