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Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.”

Way Evil Hours Dark Son My Son Providence Caution Crossings Exalted Moors Dark Hours

Book:The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!”

Certain House Hours Dark Half Cold Bottom Strikes Clock Dry Half Hours Null

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.”

Ifs Believe Dream I Believe Wish Waiting Sides Dark Translate Transport Dark Side Signposts

Author:Gail Godwin

“The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.”

Dark Son Immortal Sovereign Brows Curls Saturn Olympus

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“I adore dark chocolate.”

Dark Chocolate Adore Dark Chocolate

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.”

Earth Stars Dark White Fire Bed Rivers Stones Seeds Remembered Pockets Skirts Arranging

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.”

Ifs Children Made Mother Sides Dark Concentration Camps Locks Closets Being Afraid Concentration Camp

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

Hard Dark White Half Painting Difficulty Tubes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Light Seems Dark Dying

Author:Claude Monet

“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.”

World Whole Might Dark Silence Wife Sweet Decided My Wife Whole World Forests Warmth

Book:Day of a stranger

Source: Day of a stranger

“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.”

Light Dark Silence Sky Dying Balance Empty Flight Hawks

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.”

Way Light Heaven Dark Healing Easier Laughter Direct Release Lifts Valleys Priceless Gems Light Up Ridges

Book:Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation

Source: Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation

“Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.”

Would Be Dark Week Rain Clouds Relief Gray Apartment Ceilings Manhattan Dripping

Author:Joan Didion

“No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.”

Left Dark Cities Dying Style Shots Instinct Village Trapped Echoes Veils Spectrum Rust Flowering Pistols Ominous

Book:Collected Poems 1931-74

Source: Collected Poems 1931-74

“Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.”

Dark Concepts

Book:Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben

Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben

“Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.”

Mean Dark Appreciate Delight Corners Fearful Elegance Fearlessness

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa

“But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.”

Spirit Dark Sleep Blessing Bird Breaths Wrath

Book:The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems

Source: The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems

“In a dark time, the mind begins to see.”

Mind Dark Dark Times

Author:Theodore Roethke

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.”

Dark Bears Ocean Rays Sweetness Caves Serene Gems

Author:Thomas Gray

“Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wile.”

Looks Children Heaven Dark Sun Cry Rain Shining Cheer Wet Rainbow Brooks Thistles

Author:Mary Howitt

“However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.”

May Enough Light Hope Sides Dark Clouds

Book:The New Life

Source: The New Life

“There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night”

Night Dark Situation Concerned Gold Suicide Satisfaction Bags Despised Precipice Dark Night Antagonist Situations In Life

Author:Ernest Bramah

“It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.”

Different Light Seems Dark Color Obvious Strikes Colour Shade Vary

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.”

Light Dark Sleep White Views Land Ocean Bird Flow Stones Desert Settling Sand Destination Founders Fabric Traveler Feathers Starting Anew

Book:The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

“Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.”

Children Dark Silent Woods Folds Grandeur Maple

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.”

Light Stars Dark Jewels Stolen Afar Beacons Fainting Light Of Love Kindling Babyhood

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey

Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey

“Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.”

Christian Father House Dark Affliction Our Father Entry

Book:Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks

Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks

“Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.”