Enlightenment Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris…

— R.D. Ronald

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

— John Burroughs

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”

— Susan Sontag

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we…

— Geraldine Brooks

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

— Georges Braque

“Illuminated from within we radiate the surface as we are all the one — knowing that in the one is the all.”

— Maya Realm

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages…

— Richard Baxter

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

— August Sander