Sun Quotes - Page 26

• Soldier, there is a war between the mind
  And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
  For that the poet is always in the sun,
  Patches the moon together in his room
  To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
  Up down. It is a war that never ends.

  Wallace Stevens

  War, Moon, Night

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.302, Vintage

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• It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked
  And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

  Wallace Stevens

  Mind, Woven, Thunder

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.211, Vintage

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• It is the sun that shares our works.
  The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

  Wallace Stevens

  Moon, Sea, Share

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.168, Vintage

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• What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

  Albert Camus

  Power, Hands, Order

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• Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
  The glorious Sun uprist

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dawn, Red, Glorious

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 2

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• Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon:
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attained his noon.

  Robert Herrick

  Haste, Noon, Rising

  "To Daffodils" l. 1 (1648)

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• In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.

  Jacques Barzun

  School, President, Facts

  Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”

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• Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.

  Robert Benchley

  Morning, Coffee, Sunday

  Robert Benchley (1946). “One Minute, Please”

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• God went out of me
  as if the sea dried up like sandpaper,
  as if the sun became a latrine.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Sea, Religion

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
  repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
  I say Live, Live because of the sun,
  the dream, the excitable gift.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Dream, Black

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When they turn the sun
  on again I'll plant children
  under it, I'll light up my soul
  with a match and let it sing.

  Anne Sexton

  Hope, Children, Light

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

  Mae West

  Movie, Dream, California

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• The closer I move
  To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
  The louder the sun blooms
  And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.

  Dylan Thomas

  Moving, Men, Sea

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.185, New Directions Publishing

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• Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mistake, Loneliness, Mountain

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.173

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• I lived for a long time under vast porticos
  That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires,
  And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous
  In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fire, Long, Pillars

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

  Randall Jarrell

  Rain, Culture, Climate

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

  Yoko Ono

  Winter, Shining, Watches

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

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• The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

  Horace Walpole

  Coal, Fuel, England

  Horace Walpole, George Montagu (1837). “The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others].: 1760-1769”, p.407

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• I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers."
  The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bible, Athlete, Writing

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• The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Stars, Moon

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• Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

  Dean Potter

  Wings, Shadow, Lines

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• ... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

  Edna O'Brien

  Country, Stars, Flower

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• Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

  Jean Racine

  Death, Suicide, Despair

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• Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

  George Berkeley

  God, Stars, Fall

  George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.134, 谷月社

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