Glow Quotes
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I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded Glow of the night's light. but hey, that would be going into sexual details...
mark sanford— From emails to Argentinian mistress
— Released by The State newspaper (June 25, 2009) [2]
What is charm, it is not a moral quality.. it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even.. it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a Glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.
flora thompson— February Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
There are two kinds of light — the Glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
— James Thurber, in Lanterns and Lances? (1963).
West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young Star captains Glow.
james elroy flecker— 1913 'The Dying Patriot'.
Her eyes, the Glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes Glow, Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
Robert Herrick— The Night-piece, to Julia, written for his young daughter (1648).
A wind sways in the pines, And below Not a breath of wild air; Still as the mosses that Glow On the flooring and over the lines Of the roots here and there. The pine tree drops its dead; Theyare quiet, as under the sea. Overhead, overhead Rushes life in a race, As the clouds the clouds chase; And we go, And we drop like the fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so.
George Meredith— A Reading of Earth, "Dirge in the Woods" (1888)
I feel my heart Glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
mary wollstonecraft— Robert Walton in "Letter 1"
There are two kinds of light — the Glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
james thurber— Lanterns and Lances? (1961), p. 146; also misquoted as "There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as Glow is more revealing than glare.
james thurber— Memo to The New Yorker (1959); reprinted in New York Times Book Review (4 December 1988)
Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly Glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.
thomas gray— Line 35. (Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (1754))
Speak not too well of one who scarce will know Himself transfigured in its roseate Glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, Remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
— "Poem", read at a dinner given for the author by the medical profession of the City of New York (April 12, 1883); reported in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, ed. Eleanor M. Tilton (1895, rev. 1975), p. 71.
We are sparks that must Glow as brightly as possible.
asger jorn— On being an pictorial artist (1950), as quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 5
Merle's all-night illumination prolonged itself into an inescapable Glow that began to keep him awake.
thomas pynchon— p. 65 (Against the Day (2006))
Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth ’tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven Which die the while they Glow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870).
The Glow has gone forever And our dreams have turned to dust; I don't know how I can go on, And yet I know I must.
tom springfield— Song No Sad Songs for Me
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its Glow.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 3
May I therefore acknowledge the tender Glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography!
Whistler— After a Dutch newspaper prematurely reported his death in 1902
A life illuminated by a strangely radiant death, which continued to Glow in his minds eye.
— Chapter 9, "A Wonderful Lamp" (Quotes)
The old city, which is partially encircled by a crenelated wall, is notable for its town planning avenues; divided the city into neat rectangles, each of which specializes in certain crafts. At dusk, the sunset shaded buildings have a magical Glow.
— Lonely Planet, in "The Cities Book: A Journey Through the Best Cities in the World", p.190
God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and Glow, like like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.
john masefield— John Masefield, Widow in the Bye Street, Part VI.
Experience is always seeking for special literary forms in which its various aspects can find their most adequate expression; and there are many of these aspects which are best rendered in a fragmentary fashion, because they are themselves fragments of experience, gleams and flashes of light, rather than the steady Glow of a larger illumination.
— Logan Pearsall Smith, “English Aphorists,” Reperusals and Recollections (1936), pp. 102-103
Heaven's face doth Glow.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 4, line 48
I shall see Him with these eyes, Him whom I shall surely know; Not another shall I rise, With His love this heart shall Glow; Only there shall disappear Weakness in and round me here.
— Louisa Henrietta, p. 519. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Thou Royal River, born of sun and shower In chambers purple with the Alpine Glow, Wrapped in the spotless ermine of the snow And rocked by tempests!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To the River Rhone, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 673.
There's a barrel-organ caroling across a golden street In the city as the sun sinks low. And the music's not immortal, but the world has made it sweet and fulfilled it with the sunset Glow.
Alfred Noyes— Alfred Noyes, Barrel Organ.
Some touch of Nature's genial Glow.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles, Canto III, Stanza 14
There's nothing bright above, below, From flowers that bloom, to stars that Glow, But in its light my soul can see Some feature of Thy Deity.
— Thomas Moore, p. 429 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
