Dappled Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and…
— Wang Wei
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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
— Lucretius
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the…
— David Brooks
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Glory be to God for dappled things.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but…
— Flora Thompson
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Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the…
— Mary Pope Osborne
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Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.
— John Milton
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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
— William Wordsworth
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Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and…
— William Butler Yeats
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
— James Joyce
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...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and…
— Robin McKinley
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In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the…
— Marcel Proust
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...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and…
— John Marsden
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Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in…
— Kristin Cashore
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
— Kate DiCamillo
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Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident.…
— George R. R. Martin
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Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal…
— Adrienne Rich
Who Wrote These Dappled Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Dappled Quotes as follows: