Glisten Quotes

• There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

  John Calvin

  God, Doe

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• Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty.

  Ted Andrews

  Dark, Creative, Sun

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• 'Tis the witching hour of night,
  Orbed is the moon and bright.
  And the stars they glisten, glisten,
  Seeming with bright eyes to listen-
  For what listen they?

  John Keats

  Stars, Eye, Science

  John Keats (1867). “The Life and Letters of John Keats”, p.196

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• AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, June, Perfect Days

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.56, tredition

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• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
  Just like the ones I used to know,
  Where the tree tops glisten
  And children listen
  To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

  Irving Berlin

  Christmas, Dream, Xmas

  White Christmas (1942 song)

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• The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.

  Wallace Stevens

  Yellow, Orange, Skins

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.219, Vintage

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• No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Stars, Spring

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• Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

  William Morris

  Memories, Flower, Moving

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• Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Beautiful, Clothes, Light

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.168, Vintage

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• At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Dark, Night

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• When April steps aside for May,
  Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
  Fresh violets open every day:
  To some new bird each hour we listen.

  Lucy Larcom

  Rain, Bird, May

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• Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Cecil Castellucci (2011). “Boy Proof”, p.22, Candlewick Press

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• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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• For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy... Their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever. And the glow will be so bright, it'll warm your heart, it'll make your eyes glisten, and it'll make you think to yourselves: Robin Williams, what a concept.

  Billy Crystal

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Billy Crystal’s Tribute to Robin Williams, www.vulture.com. August 25, 2014.

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• At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Moving, Adventure

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• My mom had always wanted me to better myself. I wanted to better myself because of her. Now when the strikes started, I told her I was going to join the union and the whole movement. I told her I was going to work without pay. She said she was proud of me. (His eyes glisten. A long, long pause.) See, I told her I wanted to be with my people. If I were a company man, nobody would like me anymore. I had to belong to somebody and this was it right here.

  Roberto Acuna

  Mom, Eye, Men

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• And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

  James Russell Lowell

  June, Perfect Days, Literature

  "The Vision of Sir Launfal" prelude to pt. 1, st. 5 (1848)

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• Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Forever, Taj Mahal, Rubies

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• People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.

  Felix Marti-Ibanez

  Morning, Flower, Animal

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• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

  Irving Berlin

  Christmas, Dream, Xmas

  "White Christmas" (song) (1942)

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• If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Eye, Garden, Temptation

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• Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

  John Hancock

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Wall, Fear, Father

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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• Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Beautiful, Light, Cities

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• Look not thou on beauty's charming;
  Sit thou still when kings are arming;
  Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
  Speak not when the people listens

  Walter Scott

  Kings, Wine, People

  Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Psychology Press

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