Quotes About Contrast

The water was still. The mountains moved.

Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.

Everyone has a divine beauty. Beware, underneath there may be a hidden diabolical ego.

Fireworks can make us both happy and sad. It just depends if we are talking about fireworks in the sky or fireworks with another.

A beautiful person is a person who can see the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

Life is beautiful, but it is also so damn ugly.

I like walking in the solitary dark street than the crowded shining street.

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate".

The difference between you and me, is the different reflection that we both see.

Deep darkness enhances the brightness and beauty of a little lamp.

Life is beautiful for those who can see the beauty in the midst of the ugliness.

The beauty of life is not a lack of darkness, but it is in the presence of light.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Whatever is not stone is light

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.