What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)
A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. ("Ephemera")
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
The sun would be better than a flashlight, except it doesn’t work at night. It probably needs to recharge its batteries from running all day.
Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.
And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.
The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun is shining, but hasten to the shelter of the state when the skies darken.
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.
It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.
I don't mind snorkeling. I just wish the sharks would get out of the ocean and go sit on the sun loungers while I do it.
Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...
