Lustre

Famous quotes containing the word lustre:

“After a lustre of the moon, we say
We have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its lustre darkened by envy and malignity.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)