Darkening Quote by Yvor Winters

“He thought he stood upon an English hillside. Rain was falling; it twisted in the air like grey ghosts. Rain fell upon him and…

— Susanna Clarke

“Time was a funny thing... Instead of marching in at a measured pace, it seemed to flow like a river. Quiet days pooled together,…

— Thea Harrison

You couldn't hit water if you fell out of a fucking boat.

— Anonymous

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I…

— Mark Doty

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

— Marissa Meyer

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

— Anonymous

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And…

— Rupert Brooke

When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell…

— Edwin Morgan

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights…

— Edwin Way Teale

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there…

— Richard Brautigan