For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

Read I've Known Rivers at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Poetry Rainbows The ephemeral

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

The Big Sea

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Black poet Poet Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Hughes, Langston. "I've Known Rivers." The Big Sea. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Langston Hughes about poetry: “For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.”
Download
A quote by Langston Hughes about poetry: “For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.”
Download
A quote by Langston Hughes about poetry: “For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1940s

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Hank Williams

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Listen to I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry at Amazon Listen to I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry at Amazon
Read the lyrics to I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
More information about this quote
Topic
Loneliness Bird songs Birds
Speaker
Hank Williams
Source
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Medium
Song
Genre
Country music
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Williams, Hank. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. MGM Records, 1949.

Another quote about Poetry

I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.

Horace

Buy the Odes at Amazon Buy the Odes at Amazon
Read the Odes at Project Gutenberg
More information about this quote
Topic
Immortality through art Artistic legacy Art Poetry

Author

Horace
Source
Odes (Horace)
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Boast
Language
Latin
Time
23 BC 20s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 30.

Current Citation

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk, 3, no. 30.

Another quote from 1940

If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar, has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.

James Jeans

An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases

Buy An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases at Amazon Buy An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases at Amazon
More information about this quote
Topic
Interconnectedness of all things

Author

James Jeans
Source
An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Jeans, James. An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Cambridge University Press, 1940, ch. 2.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

I am ashes where once I was fire.

Lord Byron

More information about this quote
Topic
Aging Burnout Loss of passion Passion

Author

Lord Byron
Source
To the Countess of Blessington
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1824 1820s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lord Byron. "To the Countess of Blessington." Letters and Journals. London: J. Johnson, c. 1830.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "To the Countess of Blessington." Byron: Poems. Everyman's Library, 1994.