Quotes about Contrast
The Italians are called Children of the Sun. They might better be called Children of the Shadow. Their souls are dark and nocturnal.
- DH Lawrence
Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid the weft of poetry
- Walt Whitman
From imperfection's murkiest cloud, Darts always forth one ray of perfect light, One flash of Heaven's glory. -from Song of the Universal
- Walt Whitman
The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me.
- Walt Whitman
When light walks into a room, the darkness rolls back like a scroll." He paused, his eyes narrowing. "It has to. Darkness can't stand light. And it has no counter for it.
- Charles Martin
It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.
- Charles Martin
It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.
- Charles Martin
I have come to hide you, " darkness told the star. "I'm too bright, " the defiant star replied.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.
- Oscar Wilde
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. and the portrait in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty. p 349
- Oscar Wilde
Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
- Oscar Wilde
People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.
- Oscar Wilde