“Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.” BehindsWatchesShadowProvidenceBreaking Silence Author:James Russell Lowell
“Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.” ThinkingWatchesSunPrayingProveShadowMarkTrialsPassingPassingsUndone Book:Poems Source: Poems
“I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingLightWonderWatchesShadowTargetSeductionChamberInterrogationBright Lights Author:Anna Funder
“Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.” WorldLongMovingHalfWatchesAliveShadowFlyingGoldenFlightRavensNormalcyGranite Author:Dean Potter
“Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindPersonsArtTwoPlayStoriesLostStarsHoursLinesRoomsWatchesDrugShadowEntertainmentCinemaSheets Author:Andrei Tarkovsky