Famous quotes containing the words pass and/or light:
“You are even a world,
a planet,
and pass from history
and the day’s event.
to myth and phantasy,”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“But seldom the laurel wreath is seen
Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
There’s a light and a shadow on every man
Who at last attains his lifted mark—
Nursing through night the ethereal spark.
Elate he never can be;
He feels that spirits which glad had hailed his worth,
Sleep in oblivion.—The shark
Glides white through the phosphorus sea.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)