…And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Miracles”

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness. – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin