Abbas Kiarostami Quotes, Darkness Quotes, Poetry Is Quotes

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

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Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

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O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

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Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

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Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

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I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

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Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Feel Good Quotes , Darkness Quotes

How can I express the darkness?

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Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

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To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

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Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

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Tags : Adam Zagajewski Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Darkness Quotes