Quotes of: Dark-places Keyword

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.

The Partner

Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

Prometheus Unbound

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Quicksilver

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

Reinventing Bach

The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

The Richest Man in Babylon

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

Racing Through the Dark

He rubbed his hands up and down, warming her. “Then that’s all you need to know. I have you. If there are beasties in the dark, they have to get through me

Romancing the Duke

Pain of the past never goes away, you just find a way to deal with it. And in the future....... all the promise it holds.... that's what keeps you moving forward, and out of the darkness.

Trouble

My lips touched hers, like two butterflies in the wind. Then I went home, cut off my eyelids, and I’ve been living in darkness since.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Those who seek the Truth are logically in the dark. Therefore, if I aspire to be anything in the world, it's to be a lighthouse. And you, my midget sidekick, you can be my flashlight.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will.

Ulysses

It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.

Underdog

My life was dark, torture and empty before you found me. You brought the light, Red. I love you.

Unwritten Rules

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

An Unforgivable Secret

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Until I Find You

Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.

A Very First Book Of Poems: Heartbreak

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

The Vagina Monologues

The battlefields of life were first meadows and gardens. We made them into battlefields, and by the same power, we must release the dark spell, so they are meadows and gardens once again.

Voice of Reason