Twilight Quotes - Page 19

• It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.

  Caryl Parker Haskins

  Rivers, Unorthodox, Study

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• It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done in the remaining time? ...Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end?

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Age, Done

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• Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Heart, Shining, Meditation

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1860). “Avolio: A Legend of the Island of Cos. With Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic”, p.79

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• The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Civilization, Dawn, Treats

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• I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.

  Will Barnet

  Dark, Want, Tests

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• An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Flower, Purple

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

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• The shadows of twilight grow,
  And the tiger’s ancient fierceness
  In my veins begins to flow.

  William Wetmore Story

  Shadow, Flow, Veins

  William Wetmore Story (1868). “Graffiti D'Italia”, p.154

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• We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.

  Adam Rayner

  Opportunity, Waiting, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.

  Charles de Lint

  Lying, Eye, Long

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• La ve  rite  , comme la lumie'  re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre  puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Lying, Mets

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• In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it means to live, to love the bits of heaven that we can unearth deep in our hearts; not recognizing that our salvation is ever-present in those parts that we have disowned, denied, forgotten. The thorns of fear thwart faint attempt. The prince is courage, the kiss believing and then with these our life begins.

  Kay Thompson

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Curves, Mirrors

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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• Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Children, Flower, Men

  Osbert Sitwell (1931). “The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell”

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• Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Virtue

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Writing, Character, Moon

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• Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse — came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra

  Elyne Mitchell

  Beautiful, Horse, Clouds

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• The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

  Adrienne Rich

  Long, Nineteen, Vixens

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hate, Feelings, Doubt

  "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

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• A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Law, Darkness

  "Madness and Civilization". Book by Michel Foucault, trans. by R. Howard, 1988.

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• Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Thinking, Soul, Depth

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• If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.

  Paul Krugman

  Order, Space, Fake

  "Paul Krugman Calls for Space Aliens to Attack Earth Requiring Massive Defense Buildup to Stimulate Economy". "Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.newsbusters.org. August 14, 2011.

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• Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.

  Lola Ridge

  New York, Night, Flames

  Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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• Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

  Fear, Doubt, Doctrine

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862). “The Recreations of a Country Parson”, p.325

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• I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, California, Space

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• Im a Harry Potter fan, a Twilight fan, and I think The Hunger Games surpasses them all.

  Malese Jow

  Thinking, Games, Fans

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