„Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.“

Agnes, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 458.

Canto 6, stanza 12
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The Thankful and the Thankless
Kontext: With equal sweetness the commissioned hours
Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers.
The weeds unthankful raise their vile heads high,
Flaunting back insult to the gracious sky;
While the dear flowers, wht fond humility,
Uplift the eyelids of a starry eye
In speechless homage, and, from grateful hearts,
Perfume that homage all around imparts.

Quelle: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 15, “Delivery Service” (p. 317)

The Violet
The Improvisatrice (1824)

"Songs of Seven. Seven times Six", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

" Sleep and Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/126/31.html", st. 5
Poems (1817)
Quelle: The Complete Poems

1990 interview, as quoted in The New York Times (28 June 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/28/us/ap-us-obit-harlan-ellison.html

XXII, p. 24
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976)
Original: (ja) Ito ga tame
Hozu e no ume wo
Ta oru to wa
Shizu e no tsuyu ni
Nurenikeru kamo

Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)

Stanza 1, quoted in Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821), Ch. 6. Compare: "Jove, thou regent of the skies", Alexander Pope, The Odyssey, book ii, line 42; "Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night", John Gay, Trivia, book iii; "And hail their queen, fair regent of the night", Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, part i, canto ii, line 90.
Cumnor Hall (1784)

Variante: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Act III, scene 3.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)

Coolidge tribute to fellow poet Jean Ingelow from Preface to Poems by Jean Ingelow, Volume II, Roberts Bros 1896 kindle ebook ASIN B0082C1UAI .

Ibid [p. 147]

Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech (2003)
Kontext: Schizophrenics have a whole lot of trouble telling the level of abstraction of a story. They're always biased in the direction of interpreting things more concretely than is actually the case. You would take a schizopohrenic and say, "Okay, what do apples, bananas and oranges have in common?" and they would say, "They all are multi-syllabic words."
You say "Well, that's true. Do they have anything else in common?" and they say, "Yes, they actually all contain letters that form closed loops."
This is not seeing the trees instead of the forest, this is seeing the bark on the trees, this very concreteness.

Quelle: One for the Money

Love’s Parting Wreath
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)