"The sky is darkening like a stain Something……" — Wystan Hugh Auden

More Darkening Quotes

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• In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin.… — Herman Bavinck
• The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little… — George Eliot
• In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence… — Salman Rushdie
• The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. — Theodor Adorno
• If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of… — Thomas Jefferson
• He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. — Thomas Jefferson
• The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens… — John of Kronstadt
• While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized. — Ani DiFranco
• It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a… — Travis Walton
• Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will… — Boyle Roche
• Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and… — Gregory Maguire

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