"And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day."

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Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.12, Library of Alexandria

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#Song Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”
“With just a little love and a little caring, I have seen kids totally turn around. Where you can't find any cancer at all anymore in their body. I've done it a lot of times. I'm not trying to say I'm Jesus Christ. We should just give a little more attention to the power of love and caring and faith and prayer.”
“There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"”
“Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.”
“I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.”
“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”
“The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted.”
“The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.”

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