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Quotes About Light

When the sun goes out, it will be your love that keeps we warm.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Whatever is not stone is light
~ Octavio Paz
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink
~ Kenji Miyazawa
Lovers alone wear sunlight.
~ E.E. Cummings
I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.
~ Jaume Plensa
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
~ Robert Schumann
ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light
~ Sonia Delaunay
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
~ Aberjhani
Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.
~ Umberto Saba
Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
~ May Sarton
To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.
~ Julie Harris
literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
~ Franz Wright, God's Silence
for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
~ Plato
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.
~ Alice Cary
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.
~ Gregory Orr
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.
~ Anne Hebert
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
~ Rajneesh
A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
~ John Keats
The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.
~ Plato, Ion
So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.
~ Ted Hughes, River