Shadows

Famous quotes containing the word shadows:

    Resignedly beneath the sky
    The melancholy waters lie.
    So blend the turrets and shadows there
    That all seem pendulous in air,
    While from a proud tower in the town
    Death looks gigantically down.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    Billie Holiday’s burned voice
    had as many shadows as lights,
    a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano,
    the gardenia her signature under that ruined face.
    ...
    If you can’t be free, be a mystery.
    Rita Dove (b. 1952)

    Are they shadows that we see?
    And can shadows pleasures give?
    Pleasures only shadows be,
    Cast by bodies we conceive;
    Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)