I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hours,Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flowers, we will grieve not, rather find,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendor that God has created, but we shall get them one… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;…and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image