Quotes About Illumination

Hand in hand with Brenda whom he'd met yesterday, Profane ran down the street. Presently, sudden and in silence, all illumination in Valletta, houselight and streetlight, was extinguished. Profane and Brenda continued to run through the abruptly absolute night, momentum alone carrying them toward the edge of Malta, and the Mediterranean beyond

Down here everything was dark, but up there the gray conglomerate was being struck by the final light of day to an unanswerable brilliance.

It's always night, or we wouldn't need light. —

Everything glimmers, edges are extremely clear, illumination is low and very pure. Small clusters of white flowers peep out wherever you look. Everything blooms.

It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful very often - oh yes - but mournful somehow. Solemn. And now it would never be like that again - it had opened dazzling bright.

Estaban paradas en los peldaños cuando el alto montículo de césped sobre el que reposaba la sábila se alzó como una ola; la sábila parecía navegar encima como un barco con los remos levantados. El brillante claro de luna bañaba los remos como si fuera agua y en la ola verde centelleaba el rocío.

Every year, in the third week of February, there is a day, or more usually a run of days, when one can say for sure that the light is back. Some juncture has been reached and the light spills into the world from a sun suddenly higher in the sky...

mirror. Daylight now awaken thee." With a loud clap of his hands, Mr.

Remember that it's easier to see where light is coming from in the dark. This is important to remember, for when all the lights go out.

cayó en la trampa de la intuición que vuela a oscuras y da en el blanco antes de que el entendimiento pueda empezar a hacer lo suyo...

The truth is that poets are human beings, and what a poet has to say about his work is often far from being the most illuminating word on the subject. What is required of us, then, is nothing less than to defend the importance of the visionary experience against the poet himself.

This light that could be either enlightenment or madness fills my head.

slim and curving sickle of the moon

Their glowed as brightly as any candle in the room.

red-hot fireflies

Who helped mes see what I could not.

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you

Fingers of light are starting to pry open the night sky.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

As thikke as motes in the sonne-beem.

If the world is night, Shine my life like a light

Gli eventi gravi, fasti o nefasti che siano, non cambiano la natura dicun uomo ma permettono di definirla meglio, così come un colpo di vento, spazzando all'improvviso le foglie morte, rivela la forma di un albero; mettono in luce quello che era rimasto in ombra; danno allo spirito l'inclinazione che da lì in avanti lo caratterizzerà.

There was a shadowy light, not exactly twilight, but an uncertain vivid yet hazy illumination, wherein people walked like spirits, bathed in light and not revealed.

There is no light where I am. If any comes it is not enlightenment but lightning.