Divine Shadow

Famous quotes containing the words divine and/or shadow:

    “Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
    It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
    It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless
    successions of diseas’d corpses,
    It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
    It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous
    crops,
    It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings
    from them at last.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “before its great shadow joined
    the walls and roof and seemed
    to uphold the hall like a beam.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)