Lit Quotes - Page 17

• Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Stars, Home, Heart

  Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.84

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• The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

  Alice Cary

  Dream, Done, Burden

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.122

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• It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.

  Isaac Marion

  Eerie, Civilization, Cities

  Isaac Marion (2013). “The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies”, p.22, Random House

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• There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.128, OUP Oxford

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• We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Light, Lasts

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Couple, Reading, Eye

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• When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

  Christopher Alexander

  Light, Two Sides, People

  Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.747, Oxford University Press

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• I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?" Grandfather snorted. "Someone send to London for a special license! Now.

  Karen Hawkins

  Love, Christian, Eye

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• The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Dark, Moon, White

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Ideas, Imagination

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Sky, Poetry, Storm

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Getting lit! Full Disclosure............#dancing #fun #life #livingforlove

  Madonna Ciccone

  Fun, Dancing, Disclosure

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• Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?

  Betsy Sholl

  Water, Safe, Way

  Betsy Sholl (2004). “Late Psalm”, p.59, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
  Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Laughter, Believe

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• One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Mother, Stars, Flames

  Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1848). “Poems of early and after years ... Illustrated by E. Leutze”, p.73

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• We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

  Woody Allen

  Censorship, Film, Pornography

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

  Art Buchwald

  New York, Sky, Dancing

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping
  Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star.
  Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried,
  Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Sunset, Night

  1851 Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 5. The poemwas revised and republished in1878.

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• Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

  Meg Cabot

  Art, Book, Writing

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• I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Writing, Mean, Issues

  "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent - and also ditzy and klutzy'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2012.

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• I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

  Julianna Baggott

  Mean, Imagination, Catholic

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• Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

  Jack Antonoff

  Strong, Fire, Allies

  "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

  Jay Griffiths

  Cat, Animal, Squirrels

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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