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“The night has a thousand eyes.”

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John Lyly, born in 1553, was an influential English writer of the Renaissance period. Known for his plays and prose, he is considered one of the pioneers of English drama. more

“Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.”

“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.”

Looks Night Stars Darkness Fire Dying Sunset Kinship Grate

Book:The Egoist

Source: The Egoist

“Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!”

Night House Sides Dark Darkness Sunset Flash Moonlight Dark Side

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.”

Stills Home Night Fall Passion House Heaven Stars Grows Dark Watches Darkness Tree Sky Land Calling Stones Eternity Sight Blue Ancient Sunset Coats Immensity Darkening Ancient Trees

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang and sang But the satyr never stirred- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard.”

Heart Night Heaven White Darkness Heard Moon Stones Empty Blue Sunset Fountain Drowsy Satyrs

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.”

Want Made Light Night Certain Stars Dark Darkness Air Sea Color Wind Fine Band Mountain Cat Blue Clouds Sunset Strokes Purple Polished Bronze Dainty Dark Blue

Book:Following the Equator:

Source: Following the Equator:

“Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.”

People Parent Roles Models Parenthood Role Models Being A Role Model

Author:Margaret Cho

“How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?”

Stills Beautiful Faces Night Tree Bed Moon Reflection Shining Beloved Branches Your Face Plums Wavering

Book:Che ore sono?: poesie

Source: Che ore sono?: poesie

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