Dusk Quote by Richard Jefferies

“The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating…

— Sophie Jordan

“The day was cold, and every time the little transparent fans of water swept in and drew back, the wet sand mirrored a clear…

— Gina Berriault

“What a pity. How the stars and seas and rivers in their fragile lace of fog go on without us morning after morning, year…

— Pat Schneider

“The day was gone, the twilight was gone, and the snow was invisible as I came down to the side of the lake. Only…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The cold wind blew unceasingly from the north: a violent wind, a merciless wind, a wind that crept inside your ears and pressed hard…

— John Forrester

“There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There—for with your leave,”

— Mary Shelley

“The wind was off shore, and only broke the sea's surface in to long, silvery ripples, and sent sheeny shadows flying out across it,…

— L.M. Montgomery

“The beach looked beautiful this time of night. She'd always loved the ocean, spending many of her summers on its sand and in its…

— Connie L. Smith

“A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull…

— Alaina Stanford

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Dusk" The shadow covers the outer petals The wind makes off with the final gestures of leaves The foreign, now twice-silenced sea inside a…

— Alejandra Pizarnik