Motto Miracle Night

Famous quotes containing the words motto, miracle and/or night:

    “Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Later you hear it wander the dark house
    Like a mother who rises at night to seek a childhood picture;
    Or it goes to the backyard and stands like an old horse cold in the
    pasture.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)