lustre quotes

  The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.

- Daniel Defoe
  An Essay upon Projects,'Of  Academies:  An  Academy for Women'.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Gave the lustre of midday to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.

- Clement Moore
  The Night Before Christmas.

The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is pastthere is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'.

You will see Coleridgehe who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, through its own internal lighting blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls You will see Huntone of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it isa tomb.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' l.202^11.