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When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call white is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Love
Color
Rays
Prism
Emotion
Colors
Prisms
Small
Floor
Dances
Call
Sets
Packed
Space
Glass
Colored
Free
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White
Allow
Rainbow
Light
Sun
Flood
Windowsill

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