Rings Quotes
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That scrawny cry It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.
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More Rings Quotes
Are you a living princess or her shadow? Let me kiss your fingers and their rings, and bid you Walk no longer in an unknown age...
stéphane mallarmé— Nurse (Hérodiade (1898))
As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes The sinking stone at first a circle makes; The trembling surface by the motion stirr'd, Spreads in a second circle, then a third; Wide, and more wide, the floating rings advance, Fill all the watery plain, and to the margin dance.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Temple of Fame, line 436.
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath,The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death;Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare,They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
Alexander Pope— Line 131.
Wondrous interlacement! Holding fast to threads by green and silky rings, With the dawn it spreads its white and purple wings; Generous in its bloom, and sheltering while it clings, Sturdy morning-glory.
helen hunt jackson— Helen Hunt Jackson, Morning-Glory; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 530.
They do not ill, being lords of ours, to slay Me; nay, they could not spare: but thee to slay, To spill thy strong young life for truth to me, In all men's eyes would mark them monstrous:;: thou Must live, and serve my slayers, and serving them Sustain my memory by the proof if God Shall give thee grace to prove it that thy name, Thy father's name and mine, in true men's ears rings truth, and means not treason.
algernon charles swinburne— Faliero, Act V. Sc. 3.
Hark! how all the welkin rings, Glory to the King of kings. Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.
Charles Wesley— 1739 'Hymn for Christmas'. In Hymns and Sacred Poems.The first two lines were changed to'Hark! the herald-angels sing/ Glory to the new born king' inWhitfield's Hymns for Social Worship (1753).
Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses
bertie ahern— Explaining to the Mahon Tribunal on 20 December 2007 why he did not have a bank account in 1993. Planning Tribunal Transcript planningtribunal.ie. 2007-12-20.
A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.
theodore roethke— "The Abyss"
On his first hand he wore rings of stone,Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.There were rings unseen on his second hand,One blood in a flowing band,One was air all whisper thin,And the ring of ice had a flaw within.Full faintly shone the ring of flame,And the final ring was without name.
patrick rothfuss— A poem from the second book of the The Kingkiller Chronicle, quoted in an interview at Fantasymundo (1 August 2009)
Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.
joseph silk— The Infinite Cosmos, Page 3
Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone: A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!"
ambrose bierce— Couplet
Lo! all life this truth declares, Laborare est orare ; And the whole earth rings with prayers.
dinah maria mulock— "Labour is Prayer".
The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
isaac leib peretz— Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 14.
Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes travelling Off from the centre like horses.
Sylvia Plath— "Words"
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
jalal al-din muhammad rumi— "A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.
john townsend trowbridge— Service.
The psychical condition of men’s minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.
otto weininger— pp. 122-123
A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die. When the splendour of your story Builds the halo of its glory, 'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings And diadem the sky.
— "M.R.C.S." In Anzac, on Colonial Soldiers (1919).
Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drowned in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song.
Alfred Tennyson— Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Part CXV.
This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world … this great hour which rings in a new era … and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.
— David Lloyd George, speech at Guildhall after the signing of the Armistice (11 November 1918)
The pea is but a wanton witch In too much haste to wed, And clasps her rings on every hand.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Flowers; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
john keats— John Keats, I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the rings , the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty ) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story...
j. r. r. tolkien— About "Leaf by Niggle", in a letter to Caroline Everett (24 June 1957)
Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.
guillaume de salluste du bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Third Day, Part III.
When the Lord of the Wedding rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he said he was sorely "troubled." At last, I thought, an admission. But no, he wasn't talking about his mental condition.
— Wedded to the Republicans
Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
— J. R. R. Tolkien, in The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Book I, The Shadow of the Past
