Quotes About Contrast

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.

She sees Lake Michigan lapping at the shores of herself. It is a dizzy hole of water and the rich live in tall glass houses at the edge of it.

While Annabel possessed the sylphid grace of a fairy-tale princess, unstudied and seemingly spontaneous, yet with a dreamy air, Willy presented a dramatic contrast: brash, brusque, heavy-jawed, with eyes that engaged too directly, and too often ironically. Willy's considerable charm was at first obscured, to the superficial eye, by a certain stolidity in her figure, as in her character.

Willy was more forceful, as Annabel seemed to glide;

By contrast, these Princeton students, many of them sporting the cocked hats of their clubs, were deprived, in a sense, of this kind of knowledge, and had no comprehension that the bourgeois way of life was in fast decline;

Because it was silver foil and not a living rose, it could never rot and die.

Actually although they can be connected, the two are very different things. Vine's

We live in a region where everything is given to us, thanks to Providence, but where everything is bitter.

It's funny how "a part" and "apart" are complete opposites, yet only differ by a little space.

Illumination is the essence while darkness is the matrix.

I no longer knew how to distinguish between the sweet light of tenderness and the blackness of sensuality

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

As moonlight unto sunlight is that desert sage to other greens.

From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.

Bantams in Pine-Woods" Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail. Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal. Your world is you. I am my world. You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat! Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines, Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs, And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Let be be finale of seem, the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

The emancipatory gift of YHWH to Israel is contrasted with all the seductions of images. The memory of the exodus concerns the God of freedom who frees.

her mouth was a cruel flower. "Hair

He lived in two modes, the apparent and the veiled, and in two realms, the opera and the sewer, and he shuttled between them like a genie.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.