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"We're after the same rainbow's end waitin' round the bend, my Huckleberry friend."
— Johnny Mercer
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"It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues."
— William Henry Davies
"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."
— William Wordsworth
"We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way."
— Gloria Gaither
"No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high."
— Harriet du Autermont
"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
"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 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 gnome mine unweave a rainbow."
— John Keats
"Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours."
— Roald Dahl
"After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather
takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow."
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow
leap with flames of many colors over me."
— Black Elk
"Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky."
— Charles Kingsley
"The rainbow comes and goes."
— William Wordsworth
"Climb every
mountain, ford
every stream,
follow every
rainbow, till you
find your
dream."
— Oscar Hammerstein II
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"One doesn't look at a rainbow any
longer that lasts a quarter of an hour."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Then a small rainbow like a trellis gate,
A very small moon-made prismatic bow,
Stood closely over us through which to go."
— Robert Frost
"How else can I explain
those rainbows when there
is no rain, it's magic."
— Sammy Cahn
"When the lamp is shattered,
The light in the dust lies dead;
When the cloud is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed;
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
"It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,
Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow."
— Andrei Voznesensky
"The Rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the Rose,
The Moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath past away a glory from the earth."
— William Wordsworth
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"In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out another sort of perspiration — gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, avarice."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He hath
ribbons of
all the colors
i'the rainbow."
— William Shakespeare
"I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Here is the rainbow I've been praying for;
It's gonna be a bright, bright,
bright, bright sunshiny day!"
— Johnny Nash
"Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them."
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, glowing against the grey, sober against the fire."
— E.M. Forster
"If I could catch a rainbow
I would do it just for you
and share with you its beauty
on the days you're
feeling blue."
— Sandra Lewis Pringle
"It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow, He didn't consult a decorator or He would still be picking colors."
— Sam Levenson
"The only straight line in nature that I remember is the spider swinging down from a twig. The rainbow & the horizon seen at sea are good curves. The hair on a cat's back is a straight line."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the very essence of Poetry to spring like the rainbow daughter of Wonder from the invisible."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Seven Colors of the Rainbow:
Purple Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet
(actually, in gradation, every color is present in the rainbow; traditionally "red" is listed first, as it is generally the first color perceived above the band of yellow, which is the first seen, but there is always a purple band above the red, which, of course, is merely a cycling back to the lighter violet shade at the bottom of the arc)
"There's a light in the sky that hangs on the edge of illusion, something very fine but it's something you know is there."
— John Brian Moran
"We believed we’d catch the rainbow, ride the wind to the sun, sail away on ships of wonder
but life’s not a wheel with chains made of steel; so bless me come the dawn."
— Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio
"Someday I'm gonna follow my rainbow, someday I'm gonna reach for the sky. By then if you're not ready or able, I'll pack my pride for one last time. Cross my heart and pray our love won't die."
— Kenny Edmonds
The Seven Colors of the Rainbow:
Purple Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet
(every color is present in the rainbow; traditionally "red" is listed first, as it is generally the first color perceived above the band of yellow, which is the first seen, but there is always a purple band above the red, which, of course, is merely a cycling back to the lighter violet shade at the bottom of the arc)
“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. Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me, where troubles melt like lemondrops away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly, birds fly over the rainbow, why then, oh why can't I? Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemondrops away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow, why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh why can't I?”
— music by Harold Arlen, Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
“Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow's arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal. It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin. If it had lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and my life.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old,
brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away,
the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
“If the clouds should break and raindrops fall, I'd gather them all and bake a cake.
Invite everyone for a rainbow treat; desserts so sweet that'll bring out the sun.”
— Peter Y. Chou
“I'm always chasing rainbows, waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.”
— Joseph McCarthy
“You might as well think to go in pursuit of the rainbow, and embrace it
on the next hill, as to embrace the whole of poetry even in thought.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“You see, the sadness is that rainbows follow rainbows,
and they last no longer than shooting stars.”
— Simone Schwarz-Bart
“Pens are in many ways though not in all ways unlike rainbows,
which are in many ways though not in all ways unlike after-images,
which in turn are in many ways but not in all ways
unlike pictures on the cinema-screen — and so on.”
— John Langshaw Austin
“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Though it rained all week at the beach, it's often the momentary rainbows that we remember.”
— Leslie Dreyfous
“The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings
and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which our further shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations; whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.”
— Herman Melville
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www.TruthSeek.net - Seek Truth with Your Whole Heart, Mind, Soul, Spirit and Strength, and you will find HIm
www.FluHQ.net - Fight the Flu Naturally, Don't put your faith in placebos, you have to fight the flu
www.SoldierOn.net - Motivational truth and wisdom quotations: NEVER give up, Soldier On
www.DramaticParables.com - Christian Skits, Plays, with parable storytelling making the difference
www.Tolkster.org - The Fine Art Tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien by Douglas Christian Larsen
The BIG Book of Gospel Drama - Scripts in print for drama ministries and Biblical illumination
www.BeautyGospel.com - Spark interest on the Beauty of the Gospel, original spiritual artwork
Douglas Christian Larsen at other sites and venues:
Fine Art America - Douglas Christian Larsen black and white optical obsessions
Soldier On Fine Art Posters at www.SoldierOn.net:
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"Creativity" Fine Art Posters by Douglas Christian Larsen at Soldier On.net
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"Fate/Destiny" Fine Art Posters by Douglas Christian Larsen at Soldier On.net
"Dreams" Fine Art Posters by Douglas Christian Larsen at Soldier On.net
"Persistence" Fine Art Posters by Douglas Christian Larsen at Soldier On.net
Cyrano Hercule Savinien de Bergerac - a Tribute by Douglas Christian Larsen
"Sword" Fine Art Posters by Douglas Christian Larsen at Soldier On.net
"Genius" Fine Art Posters by Douglas Christian Larsen at Soldier On.net
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Fine Art Posters, all original, created over thousands of exhaustive hours of concentration, labor and love, combining the power of words with all the colors of the rainbow, authentic artwork meant to last a lifetime (or longer!). This is artwork meant for intense study and concentration, exercising the eyes and the mind, focusing on beauty and optical illusions, the power of Virtual Shattered Glass by Douglas Christian Larsen, virtual stained glass that seems to glow and shimmer. Optical illusions, bold colors, intense color contrasts and sympathetic hues, the fine artwork of Douglas Christian Larsen. Now available on ImageKind with a vast selection of framing and matting options, available on fine-art canvas, on the finest museum-quality papers, and even as greeting cards.
Other Sites of Note:
www.Rodolphus.org - the Dark Fiction of Rodolphus, artistic psychological horror stories, angry and bittersweet
www.DCLWolf.com - Fiction of the Wolf, the mystical fiction of Douglas Christian Larsen
