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Autobiography and memoir1 quote
For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly. — Langston Hughes · 1940Religious literature1 quote
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. — God · 1405 BCTravel writing1 quote
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. — Mark Twain · 1880