False Lights

Famous quotes containing the words false lights, false and/or lights:

    “In spite of rock and tempest’s roar,
    In spite of false lights on the shore,
    Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
    Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
    Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
    Our faith triumphant o’er our fears,
    Are all with thee,—are all with thee!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Every white man in this country has been raised with a false sense of power.”
    —Roxanne Dunbar (1938)

    “I am haunted by interrupted acts,
    introspective as a leper, enchanted
    by a repulsive clew,
    a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs.
    Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)