France Quote by Ian McEwan

“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue, like cream…

— Olivia Sudjic

“All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight Keeping time.time.time In a sort Runic rhyme, To the tintinabulation that so musically wells…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It was a still afternoon - the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the…

— George Eliot

“It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.—It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.—It's a blasted heath.— It's a Hyperborean winter scene.—It's…

— Herman Melville

“IV REVEILLE Wake: the silver dusk returning Up the beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands upon the eastern rims.…

— A. E. Housman

“Time oozed away, flowing like lava erupting lazily from a vent, slowly and impossible to stop, covering everything into oblivion under its dark layer…

— Massimo Marino

“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for…

— Cassandra Clare

“The heaven of stars bends over me in silence, a harp through which the wind of time still whispers music some hand has hushed…

— John Hall Wheelock

“Let us get of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A…

— Richard Jefferies

“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon. She listened…

— Tamara Rendell

“In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All around the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing…

— Alfred Tennyson

“The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one…

— Katherine Mansfield