Famous quotes containing the word shining:
“we, in
that instant, lost,
breathless to be witnesses,
as if we stood
ourselves refreshed among
the shining fauna of that fire.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
“Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark—a shining space
With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)