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struck
«A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.»
Author: James Dickey
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
hoping, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, outside, poet, rain, stands, strike out, struck
«How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.»
Author: Lee Trevino
(Golfer)
| Keywords:
divorced, lightning, Lightning Strikes, operations, strike back, struck
«A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times»
Author: Randall Jarrell
| About:
Poets
| Keywords:
lightning, Lightning Strikes, manages, six times, struck, thunderstorm, thunderstorms
«He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
anachronism, good-for-nothing, proven, single bed, slept, songwriter, songwriters, struck
«Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
amazement, beheld, duly, Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures, insignificance, overwhelmed, presence of God, relates, scripture, struck, touched, uniformly
«Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men»
«But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Mistakes,
Nature,
Words,
Work
| Keywords:
decipher, deciphered, deciphering, echo, gap, shorthand, struck
