Books Quote by Marthe Bibesco Download Open image “that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.” — Marthe Bibesco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Literature Sunlight
“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.” — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“There are Things that do not love the sun. They weep and curse their own creation. Sometimes on earth a cruel shift takes place.… — Jack Cady Copy Share Image
Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time. — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Certain living things prefer the dark, thriving in the shadows of tombstones and crypts, flowering admist the dead. Others tend toward the sun, blooming… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will,… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
