Sun Quotes - Page 15

• Father, thy hand
  Hath reared these venerable columns, thou
  Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down
  Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose
  All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun,
  Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze,
  And shot towards heaven.

  William C. Bryant

  Father, Hands, Rose

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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• In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

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• Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Night, Liberty, Despotism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.198

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• As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Eye, Numbers, Envy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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• A blossom full of promise is life's joy,
  That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time,
  Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light,
  And it looks flourishing--a little while--
  'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Joy, Promise

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• There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Victory, Able

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Wise, Country

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.111

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• By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.

  Joseph Addison

  Stars, Sight, Heaven

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• ["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Bullfighting, Sun Also Rises

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• I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Distance, Sleep

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• There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Ill Will, Criticism

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1708, ShandonPress

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• If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Fate, Car

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Ocean, Feet

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'El Dorado'

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• The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Morning, Hero, Men

  Zora Neale Hurston, Chic Street Man, George C. Wolfe (2000). “Spunk: Three Tales”, p.42, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• If I should die, think only this of me:
  That there's some corner of a foreign field
  That is forever England. There shall be
  In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
  Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
  A body of England's, breathing English air,
  Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Book, Home

  'The Soldier' (1914)

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• The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Truth, Lying, Flower

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”

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• God lead us past the setting of the sun
  To wizard islands, of august surprise;
  God make our blunders wise.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Wise, Wisdom, Past

  Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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• I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
  First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
  The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
  The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
  By no change of its large calm front of snow.

  Robert Browning

  Long, Snow, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• God smiles as He has always smiled;
  Ere suns and moons could wax and wane,
  Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled
  The Heavens, God thought on me His child;
  Ordained a life for me, arrayed
  Its circumstances, every one
  To the minutest; ay, God said
  This head this hand should rest upon
  Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Children, Moon

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
  A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
  And death was safety and great joy to find;
  But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

  Michelangelo

  Wings, Feet, Safety

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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• For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

  John Dryden

  Gossip, Compare, Knows

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• Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.

  Bill Vaughan

  Struggle, Race, Dust

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• At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Rain, Men, Inquiry

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• Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.

  George Herbert

  Home, Shining, Sun Shines

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Wine, Air, Rome

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.58, Random House

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