Shimmering Quotes

61 quotes by 58 authors

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence… — John Noble
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul… — Paul Verlaine
I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections… — Dorothy Height
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more… — Joseph Cornell
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled — Georg Buchner
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes
From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to… — Pablo Neruda
I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown… — Mary Oliver
It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles.… — Rob Brezsny
The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful… — Michael O'Donoghue
Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge — William Carlos Williams
At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of… — Jan Morris
Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to… — Jeff Buckley
On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair.… — Heinrich Heine
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in… — Israel Zangwill
I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers. — Janelle Monae
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the… — Stan Brakhage
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of… — Paul Engle

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