void quotes

In poetry, no less than in life, he is 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain'.

- Matthew Arnold
  Of Shelley. Essays in Criticism Second Series,'Shelley'. The phrase is a quotation from his own work on Byron.

Foras therain cometh down, and thesnow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and makethit bring forthand bud, that it maygiveseedtothe sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 55:10^11.

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-Brathwaite
  Islands, no.3 'Rebellion', pt.6 'Negus', collected as The Arrivants:  A New World Trilogy (1973).

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

-William Hazlitt
Of  Turner's painting, quoted in  J Lindsay  Turner: The Man and his  Art (1985).

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

- Ursula ne  e Kroeber Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven, ch.10.

No te juzgues incompleto porque no responden a tus ternuras; el amor lleva en s | su propia plenitud. Siempre que haya un hueco en tu vida, lle  nalo de amor. Don't judge yourself incomplete when your tenderness gets no response; love carries within itself its own plenitude. Whenever there is a void in your life, fill it with love.

-Nervo
  Plenitud,'Lle  nalo de amor' (translated as'Fill It with love', 1928).

Oh happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature, law: All then is full, possessing, and possessed, No craving void left aching in the breast.

- Alexander Pope
  'Eloisa to Abelard'.

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 27, l.1^4.

That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 54, l.5^8.

Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.

-Crayencour
Me  moires d'Hadrien.