“The sky was peach and gold, a teacup of a morning, just enough clouds so as not to mock us.”
Elizabeth McCracken
more infosource: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008), 100.
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category: beautiful description, cloud, color, gold, peach, sky
medium: memoir
“It is the speck that makes the cloud that wrecks the vessel, children, yet no one fears a speck.”
Emily Dickinson
more infosource: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 490.
category: cloud, danger, fear, speck, storm, vessel
medium: letter
notes: letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, Dickinson's first cousins, early October 1871
“Any minute now I will make a knife out of a cloud.”
W. S. Merwin
more infosource: “October,” in The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993), 32–33.
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category: cloud, creativity, knife, poetry, transformation, writing
medium: poetry
“Saw the limb of a rainbow footing itself on the sea at a small apparent distance from the shore, a thing of itself—no substrate cloud or even mist visible—but the distance glimmered through it as through a thin semi-transparent hoop.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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