Century Quote by Heinrich Heine

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted a forehead…

— Pat Conroy

“I had seen a dawn like this one only twice in my life: once in Vietnam, when a Bouncing Betty had risen from the…

— James Lee Burke

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the…

— Helen Keller

“It was the clouds I saw first. Enormous clouds drifting in the cobalt sky, soft and magnanimous, still tinged by the rose remnants of…

— Sarah J. Maas

The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset…

— John Ashbery

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in…

— Kami Garcia

“Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below…

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in…

— James Joyce

“Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon, illuminate the shadows in the sky.”

— A.F. Stewart

“The oblong tower of the church, with its wrought-iron steeple, caught the last reflections of the sun against the hills. This is what a…

— Elizabeth Bard