The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.
It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.
There is no time like Spring
When life's alive in everything,
Before new nestlings sing,
Before cleft swallows speed their journey back
Along the trackless track.
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.