#lights

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#dark #god #high #highest #how

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#big #big cities #bright #bright lights #cincinnati

...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #magic #sex-magick #spells #love

SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKY Early summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky. Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice, while the sun tarries. Just think -- all the celestial lights are present at the same time! These are moments of wonder -- see them and remember. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#evening #evenings #heaven #light #lights

She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view--the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can’t imagine what it’s like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you. ↗

— Jay McInerney

#bright-lights #experience

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

#fights #her #lawyer #money #pleads

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#darkness #else #everything #flash #gone

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#corruption #cutting #done #fancy #flights

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#attitude #before #change #connect #does