Darkness Quote by Rossiter Johnson

What does the floating clouds say to you? What do the swaying grasses murmur to you? What does the thunder storm whisper to you?

— Me

Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .

— Pablo Neruda

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

— John Constable

“The sky's gray and there's mizzle. It's so soft on my skin--it's nothing like rain. It's even softer than the lightest drizzle! Lift my…

— Jenn Fagan

Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the…

— Jacques Roumain

“In the twilight of dawn, when his ears are still fresh to the day's first sounds, he can hear clearer than at any other…

— Shandi Mitchell

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of…

— Haruki Murakami

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams…

— Conrad Aiken

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

— Alexander Pope

“The night-noises of the metro night: harbor-wind skirling on angled cement, the shush and sheen of overpass traffic, TPs' laughter in interior rooms, the…

— David Foster Wallace

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins