Alfred Billings Street quotes
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“Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.”
-- Alfred Billings StreetSource : Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.20
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“Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.”
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“The home of the homeless all over the earth.”
-- Alfred Billings StreetSource : Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.85
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“In summer the empire of insects spreads.”
Source : "In Valleys" by Adam Zagajewski, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.
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Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.
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“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”
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