Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“She was his dawn of bliss He was her dusk of wounds, Each day they came up to See and touch They… — Tanya Gambhir Copy Share Image
“The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Sophie picked her way through the forest, stepping over tree roots, and pushing aside low-lying branches, letting them snap back behind her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“The day drew on, was swallowed in dusk. No bird called, no insect. Life in abeyance, the world itself grinding to a… — William Gay Copy Share Image
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of… — Mike Bond Copy Share Image
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“The setting sun had turned the blue sky a brilliant orange, then soft pink merging to pearl; the plum velvet of night… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart… — John B. Tabb Copy Share Image
“What’s next from you? Paintingwise, I mean.” “I don’t know. I’m between things now.” “Dawn between things or dusk between things?” “I… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed… — Molly Keane Copy Share Image
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“If you stand / there long enough the air will thicken / with dusk and dust and exhaust / and finally with… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
