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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me.
— Christina G. Rossetti, A Birthday.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
lord byron— Bride of Abydos (1814) Canto II, St. 20
If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.
vanna bonta— "Love Beyond Time"
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.
jean-louis gassée— Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, 1999
— As President of Apple Products, speaking on the Apple logo
Somewhere over the rainbow , Way up high There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true .
yip harburg— "Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz (1939) - YouTube video
Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow it over the hill and stream Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow the fellow who follows the dream.
— "Look to the Rainbow" by E. Y. Harburg (Yip Harburg) and Burton Lane from the musical play (and motion picture) Finian's Rainbow
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
mark twain— A Tramp Abroad (1880)
The dark notes rose everywhere, so dark, so sombre, they broke into a fountainlight as the rainbow sparkling and immaterial as invisible sources and echoes. The savannahs grew lonelyas the sea and broke again into a wave and forest. Tall trees with black marching boots and feet were clad in the spurs and sharp wings of a butterfly.
Rolf Harris— 1960 The Palace of the Peacock, ch.11.
For coloured girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
Ntozake Shange— Title of "Choreopoem" (1975)
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
harper lee— Pt. 2, ch. 23
— Atticus Finch
Beauty in this Iron Age must turn From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn Who hopes to wake the Future to arise In Phoenix -fashion, and to shine with rays To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...
philip josé farmer— "Beauty in This Iron Age" in Starlanes #11 (Fall 1953); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Herman Melville— 1891Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.
I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard again In my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. And here afar, Intent on my own race and place, I wrote.
Robert Louis Stevenson— Weir of Hermiston (published 1896), Dedication 'To My Wife' (1894)
My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high.
ruslana korshunova— "Model's Web rants pined for love" in Daily News (29 June 2009)
But the little boy said... "There are so many colors in the rainbow So many colors in the morning sun So many colors in the flowers and I see every one."
harry chapin— Flowers are Red
But there still must be a way to have our children say... "There are so many colors in the rainbow So many colors in the morning sun So many colors in the flower and I see every one." (Live version)
harry chapin— Flowers are Red
And don't you remember Keats proposing 'Confusion to the memory of Newton ' and upon your insisting on an explanation before you drank it, his saying, 'Because he destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism? Ah, my dear old friend, you and I shall never see such days again!
john keats— Benjamin Haydon, Autobiography and Memoirs.
Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.
aldo leopold— “Wisconsin: The Sand Counties”, p. 102
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos, Canto II, Stanza 20.
The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue, With tints of rainbow hue Mocking the sunset skies.
Thomas J. ouseley— Thomas J. Ouseley, The Angel of the Flowers.
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
— Hortense Calisher, Queenie, 1971.
There's a rainbow round my shoulder And a sky of blue above, Oh the sun shines bright, the world's all right `Cause I'm in love.
— Dave Dreyer, in There's a Rainbow Round My Shoulder
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta be willing to put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton— As quoted in The Scrapbooker's Guide to Business: What You Need to Know Before You Invest (2003) by Kathy Steligo (p. 125)
The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
kim stanley robinson— Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, And left thee all her lovely hues.
— 1910 'The Kingfisher'.
As for my feelings toward "Over the rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
judy garland— Letter to Harold Arlen, as quoted in Over the Rainbow : The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (1991) by Paul Nathanson, p. 340
