Sunbeams Quotes

67 quotes by 60 authors

I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born… — Charles Baudelaire
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot… — Pablo Neruda
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… — Charles Dickens
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricityâ€”like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when… — John Burroughs
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with… — George Augustus Henry Sala
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this… — Francis Quarles
When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by… — Saint Basil
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all. — John Greenleaf Whittier
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!. — Matthew Arnold
As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed. — Noel Coward
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in… — Alexander Hamilton
From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in… — Lucy Larcom
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a… — Jane Porter
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that… — Philip Pullman
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty. — Pablo Neruda
You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional… — Isaac Asimov
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve… — E E Cummings

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