#earth

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ↗

— C. Day Lewis

#earth #expresses #good #however #just

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#aim #earth #get #heaven #neither

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#elsewhere #escapes #human #human race #iniquity

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth. ↗

— Justin Long

#back #been #brought #earth #egotistical

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#descends #dull #earth #genius #inert

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. ↗

— John Lyly

#consummated #earth #heaven #made #marriages

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#bright #brothers #cold #earth #eternal

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#contains #divine #earth #feed #find

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#anything #care #earth #face #hardest

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#does #earth #us