Silver Moon Crystal

Famous quotes containing the words silver, moon and/or crystal:

    ““Maman”, said Annaïse, her voice strangely weak. “Here is the water.”
    A thin blade of silver came forward in the plain and the peasants ran alongside it, crying and singing.
    ...
    “Oh, Manuel, Manuel, why are you dead?” moaned Délira.
    “No”, said Annaïse, and she smiled through her tears, “no, he is not dead”.
    She took the old woman’s hand and pressed gently against her belly where new life stirred.”
    —Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)

    “I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the air
    Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
    As you might try a jewel in your hair.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “A crystal of breath,
    your irreversible
    witness.”
    —Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)