Famous quotes containing the word bright:
“And everywhere the stifling mass of night
Swamps the bright nervous day, and puts it out.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“We forget cruelty and past betrayal,
Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not a distance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,—nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)