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Letter "G" » glow
«Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.»
Author: Glenway Wescott
(Writer)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
factual, fictive, glow, narration, nervous, strike home
«West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go, / Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow.»
«Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.»
Author: Paul Robeson
(Activist, Actor, Singer)
| Keywords:
choir, choirs, choir loft, coal, eloquence, folk, folk song, gifted, glow, gospel, Gospels, harmonies, Jackson, lilac, lilacs, loft, Negro, parlor, parlors, phrasing, poetic, porches, preachers, rhythmic, rhythms, sermons, singers, soaring, summer sweet, Sung, The Choir, The Glow, thrill
«When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.»
«When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
awaken, beloved, cast, faces, glow, surrounding, T, The Faces, The Face of, The Glow, torn, unhappiness, vocation, vocations
«Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.»
«When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
glare, glaring, glow, in writing, translucence, transparency
«We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
coziness, domesticity, glow, historic, parade, parasitic, slyly, snug, withdrawn
«The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat, and illumines nothing but itself»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Judaism
| Keywords:
glow, Glow worm, illumine, illumines, worm
«We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.»
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