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The only word they have for object in the sky is cloud ... ‘While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.’ ... Sometimes the term pillar of cloud is used. Richard D Hall, RichPlanet online: UFOs & Religion
I will never understand the human need to find imagery in something as innocuous as a cloud. Star Trek: Voyager s6e25: The Haunting of Deck Twelve, Tuvok to Tom et al on bridge
Every cloud has a silver lining. Mid-19th century proverb
Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ’tis like a camel, indeed. William Shakespeare, Hamlet III ii
How about Cloudcuckooland? Aristophanes c.450-385 BC, naming capital city’s birds
There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. I Kings 18:44
Far and wide the clouds were touched
And in their silent faces could be read
Unutterable love. William Wordsworth, The Excursion
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober coloring from an eye
That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality. William Wordsworth, ‘Ode, Intimations of Immortality’
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I have bottled clouds as carefully as my father, a wine-merchant, had bottled sherrys. John Ruskin
Get off of My Cloud. The Rolling Stones, 1966 song
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos
He stepped outside and looked up at the stars swimming in schools through the wind-driven clouds. John Steinbeck, East of Eden
There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. John Milton, Comus
Feathery curtains,
Stretching o’er the sun’s bright couch. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab
Far clouds of feathery gold,
Shaded with deepest purple, gleam
Like islands on a dark blue sea. ibid.
Fertile golden islands,
Floating on a silver sea. ibid.
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams. Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cloud
I saw two clouds at morning
Tinged by the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on
And mingled into one. John G C Brainard, I Saw Two Clouds at Morning
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft
So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away
Over the snowy peaks! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend V:145
A cloud can weigh as much as two elephants. Wild Weather with Richard Hammond: Water – The Shape Shifter, BBC 2014
Clouds float because the water-drops inside them are so small and so light. ibid.
Fog is just a cloud that’s in contact with the ground. Wild Weather with Richard Hammond: Temperature – the Driving Force
Clouds spout upon her
Their waters amain
In ruthless disdain; –
Here who but lately
Had shivered in pain … Thomas Hardy, Rain on a Grave
How sweet to be a cloud. Floating in the blue. A A Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Cloud-damage is dramatically on the increase. Brass Eye s1e3: Science, Channel 4 1997
‘We have countless other reports of UFO-shaped clouds all over Chile.’ The Proof is Out There: Alien Edition s1e6: Bizarre UFO Shapes, comment, Histor 2025