quotations about light
O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
William Tell
With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Past and Present
As the region has grown in population, the quantity of light in the night sky has increased greatly. Not only are there more buildings with lights, there are also more lights in between buildings. There are more streetlights and backyard lights, and most of those lights are brighter than they were 31 years ago. Of course, the streets are probably safer, too. This has happened with a purpose in mind. But the consequence of all this extra light is a pollution of sorts.
JOHN WHEELER
"City lights bring their own kind of pollution", AG Week, June 25, 2016
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn!
Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light
And never but in unapproached light
Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,
Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Light is a matter of experience, and it stays in play as experience even as we do our best to reduce it to rule and explanation.
DAVID A. GRANDY
The Speed of Light: Constancy and Cosmos
Light shines through the darkness, illuminating all in its path. Light is the source of the visible world, whether in our everyday existence or in the creation of a photograph. It is light that makes seeing and recording sight possible, and so it is a wonder to behold. It is an energy that guides as well as stuns, and in this way, light is a force of reckoning.
MISS ROSEN
"Like a Moth to the Flame, We're Drawn to the Art of Mike & Doug Starn", Crave Online, June 25, 2016
All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Past and Present
Besides its other admirable properties, light has that of developing the feelings. That it has this power is indicated by the poets, in their frequent use of such phrases as "the cheerful light of morn," "a dim religious light," "the purple light of love," "the tender light of the moon," and so on, through a long series of descriptive expressions, ending with that delicious one of Mrs. Norton, "the love light in her eye." Again: Place a number of persons in a room dimly lighted, and they will become taciturn and moody; put the light altogether out, and they will fall asleep; then awaken and lead them into a chamber brilliantly lighted, and they will probably soon become full of animation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Light is a plastic medium that is the key ingredient shared by every photograph and determines the look of every photograph you make. Light's authority defines the essence of a subject. Light is the glue that holds your image together.
ROBERT HIRSCH
Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
The salutary and enlivening effects of light upon the heavens and the earth, upon all substances of nature, and upon every order of beings throughout the visible creation, do certainly afford a lively illustration of the infinite knowledge, power, and goodness of God.
J. BASELEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Light, like circulating blood, which returns to the heart, is supposed to return to the sun, after having performed the functions for which it was emitted from that body; even so will the soul, our intellectual light, return to its Divine Source, when released from the body, to whose earthly purpose it has administered.
CHATFIELD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn't need darkness to be luminous.
GWEN HAYES
Dreaming Awake
And she was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce,
Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light.
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Blinded by the Light"
There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the Light to burn away.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Fallen Angels
Light is the symbol of truth.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
C. J. ROBERTS
Captive in the Dark
Long is the way
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Light is a source of revelation. Regardless of what you might think, it is finding out something that you did not know. Light illuminates your pathway in life. Light allows you to put one thing in front of the other.
ANGELA CLARK
A New You: Where Your Real Life Begins
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Nature", Essays and Lectures