brightness quotes

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

-Anaxagoras
Fragment in Plutarch De facie in orbe lunae, 929b.

Shall not the day of the L be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDAmos 5:20.

God, whoat sundry times and indiversmannersspake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews1:1^3.

But two miles more and then we rest! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the west Sit then, awhile, here in this wood So total is the solitude, We safely may delay.

- Charlotte Bronte« 
  'Regret', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and  Acton Bell.

O how fall'n! how changed From him, who in the happy realms of light Clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright.

-John Milton
  Of Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.84^7.

Then washed in the brightness of this vision, I saw how in its radiance would grow and be nourished and suddenly burst into terrible and splendid bloom the blood-red flower of revolution.

- Dudley Randall
  Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.

What I had not foreseen Was the gradual day Weakening the will Leaking the brightness away

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  'What I Expected,Was'.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  'What I Expected,Was'.

A stately palace built of square'  d brick, Which cunningly was without mortar laid, Whose walls were high, but nothing strong, nor thick, And golden foil all over them displayed, That purest sky with brightness they dismayed.

- Edmund Spenser
  Of the palace of pride. The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 4, stanza 4.