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Quotes About Sunbeams

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
~ Wilfred Owen
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
~ Pablo Neruda
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
~ Roald Dahl
I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.
~ Garon Whited
The fervour of the sunbeams descending in a tidal flood rings on the strung harp of earth. It is this exquisite undertone, heard and yet unheard, which brings the mind into sweet accordance with the wonderful instrument of nature.
~ Richard Jefferies
Such moments – the first glimmer of dawn sunbeams, lengthening shadows, star-glitter permeating the darkening sky, 'a perilous pagan enchantment haunting the midsummer forest'3 – saturate the music of Arnold Bax, the principal figure in what is sometimes referred to as the Celtic Twilight movement in British music, when the land without music was transformed into a sonorous Neverland.
~ Rob Young
Fragment" What is poetry? Is it a mosaic Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought Into a pattern? Rather glass that's taught By patient labor any hue to take And glowing with a sumptuous splendor, make Beauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught, Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraught With storied meaning for religion's sake.
~ Amy Lowell
No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
~ John Muir
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
~ Hosea Ballou
You seemed all brown and soft, just like a linnet, Your errant hair had shadowed sunbeams in it, And there shone all April In your eyes.
~ Robert Leighton
Were they merely mortal remains? she thought, as the air cleared and a billowy white cloud momentarily obscured the sunbeams. Was that all she'd let go, or had she, as her father promised, allowed a falcon to take flight?
~ Robert Masello
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
~ Douglas Jerrold
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~ Robert Southey
Judge Schreber has sunbeams in his ass. A solar anus . And rest assured that it works.
~ Gilles Deleuze
As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
when I asked Atticus about it, he said there were already enough sunbeams in the family and to go on about my business, he didn't mind me much the way I was.
~ Harper Lee
He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank well, he kept demonstrating to me the advantages of reason... In striving after the positive, the poor man had argued away all life's splendour, all the sunbeams, all the faith and all the flowers, leaving nothing but the cold, positive grave.
~ Heinrich Heine
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
~ George Eliot
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
~ Douglas Jerrold
I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Springtime has a surplus of sunbeams, and I am only feline.
~ Catherynne M. Valente