Unutterably Quotes
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Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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More Unutterably Quotes
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression ; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Procession of Life
Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Canto IV (Queen Mab (1813))
Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
Nancy Freeman Mitford— 1945 Uncle Matthew. The Pursuit of Love, ch.15.
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts : unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idle froth amid the boundless main, To waken doubt in one Holding so fast by Thine infinity ; So surely anchored on The stedfast rock of immortality .
— Emily Brontë, in No Coward Soul Is Mine (1848).
