Dawn Quotes - Page 32

• Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

  Dante Alighieri

  Enthusiasm, This Day

  Dante Alighieri (1842). “The Poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito of Dante Alighieri”, p.149

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• Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Dog, Journey, Men

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• In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Faith, Night, Challenges

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• Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Waiting, Identity

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.35, Image

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• But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place
  Where the banished poet has gone
  And the night that comes with quickened pace
  Is ignorant of dawn.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Night, Poetry, Ignorant

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• When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

  Victor Hugo

  Wrinkles, Light, Grace

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• It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Islands, Light, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.155, Broadview Press

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• The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Winter, Fire, Light

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• I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to finish, so hard to find the exact word to make it shine. In honor of my youth I will write a poem to finish this essay. It is spring in the Ozark Mountains. The yellow flowers are blooming and the birds wake me at dawn and last night five planets lined up by the moon in the western sky. If that doesn't inspire me to poetry what will?

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Spring, Flower, Writing

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• The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

  Hesiod

  Journey, Men, Speed

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• Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Night, Darkness, Gold

  "Stray Birds".

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• Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

  Amanda Palmer

  Ideas, Band, Crowdfunding

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• The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the North will fling it wide open, while four millions of our brothers and sisters shall march out into liberty. The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Morning, Stars

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE – Astounding Life of One Incredible Man (3 Autobiographies in One Volume): The Most Important African American Leader of the 19th Century: The Escape from Slavery, Life as a World-Renowned Activist against Slavery and Racism & Political Career after the Civil War”, p.740, e-artnow

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• But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

  Martin Buber

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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• The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

  Keith Miller

  Coffee, Writing, Wine

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• It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

  James A. Michener

  Beautiful, Lakes, Southern

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Covenant: A Novel”, p.27, Dial Press

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• "Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.

  Paul Davies

  Philosophy, Years, Fifty

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Beautiful, Sunset, Reflection

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• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Disappointment, Grief

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• Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry "Down with traitors!" And the dawn shout "Up the rebs!"

  Yip Harburg

  Hero, Night, Greatness

  "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.

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• Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Letting Go, Real, Heart

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• Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.

  John Ruskin

  Girl, Night, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 122, 1895.

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• Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Matthew Arnold, Miriam Farris Allott, Robert Henry Super (1986). “Matthew Arnold”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Two, Long, League

  'Qua Curam Ventus' (1849)

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