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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)
Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she isgiven In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.
john keats— 1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems, 'Lamia', pt.2, l.229-34.
The Lord survives the rainbow of his will.
— 1950 'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', last line.
I wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldn't! … So what? Lots of people can't!
judy garland— As quoted in Judy (1974) by Gerold Frank, p. 566
I saw a rainbow earlier todayLately those rainbows be comin' round like everydayDeep in the struggle I have found the beauty of meGod is watchin' and the Devil finally let me beHere in this moment to myself
macy gray— "A Moment to Myself" (co-written with Jeremy Ruzumna, Miles Tackett. Mark Morales, and Damon Wimbley)
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
william wordsworth— My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, (1802)The last three lines of this form the introductory lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood begun the next day.
And God smiled again, And the rainbow appeared, And curled itself around his shoulder.
james weldon johnson— The Creation, st. 7
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person’d Lamia melt into a shade.
john keats— "Lamia", Pt. II, l. 229.
A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.
— John Banister Tabb, Humming Bird.
In the thirteenth century Robert Grosseteste wrote a book on the rainbow that began an outburst of European speculation parallel to the equally rich Arab work.
— Philip Fisher, Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998)
Grosseteste was the first medieval writer to break with the ancient tradition of discounting refraction in the rainbow. In another way, however, Grosseteste is firmly bound to his predecessors' rainbows an experimentalist in principle, in practice he strays very little from the Aristotelian tradition of selective observation constrained by geometry. Furthermore, Grosseteste's rainbow theory often appeals to authority, leading historian Bruce Eastwood to remark: "When sources fail, he invents, and the invention is never contradictory to literary sources." (In fairness, Grosseteste made several observations about the rainbow that gainsaid ancient authority.)
— Raymond L. Lee & Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science (2001)
Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wild.
mary howitt— The Wet Summer. From the German.
Day stars:;! that ope your frownless eyes to twinkle From rainbow galaxies of earth's creation, And dew-drops on her lonely altars sprinkle As a libation.
horace smith— Horace Smith, Hymn to the Flowers.
'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 122
Through gloom and shadow look we On beyond the years! The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
John Vance cheney— "Tears" in The Century. Vol. 44, Issue 4 (August 1892)
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel 's wings.
john keats— John Keats, Lamia, Part II, line 231, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 655
If you mean that the proximity of one color should give beauty to another that terminates near it, observe the rays of the sun in the composition of the rainbow, the colors of which are generated by the falling rain, when each drop in its descent takes every color of the bow.
leonardo da vinci— Treatise on Painting (c. 1490)
I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers; I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman .
— Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
