Quotes About Dusky

Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear. Use dusky words and dusky images. Darken your speech. Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking, But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts, Conceiving words, As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence, And out of their droning sibilants makes A serenade.

out of great Russia came three dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die for: Bread, Peace, Land.

The February day was closing, and a ray of sunshine, slanting through a slit in the chapel wall, brought out the vision of a pale haloed head floating against the dusky background of the chancel like a water-lily on its leaf.

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I enjoyed introspection, shrouded myself in cogitation; with what rapture did I listen for the rustling of frail insects in the thickets of my nerves!

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Under the caverned pyramids great Set coils asleep; Among the shadows of the tombs his dusky people creep. I speak the Word from the hidden gulfs that never knew the sun Send me a servant for my hate, oh scaled and shining One!

There were so many stars in the dusky night I could see them falling as I gazed upward into the darkness. They seemed so near, like the Salt Sea in the distance, when they were so far away.

The beauty is solely in the sole, but a person who finds it on the face or any other body part has either a dusty mind or a dusky heart and is oneself not beautiful.

Yet on the dusky veranda she had seemed like a force of nature that had somehow sought out the landscape of his longing and moulded itself to each contour.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

You're a Dusky Flying Fox," he told me. "A what?" "An extinct species of mammal known only by a single specimen. You were spotted once in 1874 on Percy Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. No other examples of you were ever found.

Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

Air that had not been breathed once and again! air that had not been spoken into words of falsehood, formality, and error, like all the air of the dusky city!

Mazie sits with a sense of non-being over her – of it being someone other than she sitting there timeless, suspended in a dusky room, feeling a voice gathering around her, kind still hands of sound flaring into words meaningless and strange, meaningless when one tries to understand, but meaningful for a fleeting second.

The flowers have come, and are adorable, dusky, tortured, passionate like you.

I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

The desert sunset clouds exhale pink puffs of dusky smoke.

Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow in every joy.

It makes a man feel universal, floating over the continents, seeing the rim of the world, a line as clear as a compass arc, knowing it is just a turning of the bend to Atlantic twilight, to sediment plumes and kelp beds, an island chain glowing in the dusky sea.

the skin he saw was somehow "smoky," "dusky" colored, and "sickly yellow" all at the same time. Like the antebellum figure of the dirt-eater, the Smoky Pilgrims apparently carried the telltale marks of their degeneracy on their skin zs