LIGHTNING QUOTES III

quotations about lightning

Lightning quote

We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.

NORMAN MAILER

Ancient Evenings

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Like the lightning, which doth cease to be,
Ere one can say--It lightens!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


So Lightning says to Mud,
"What would happen if I struck your blood?"
And Mud says, "Brother,
It would hurt,
And make me the mother
Of every living thing.
But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirt
Until you burn me a ring."

SHERMAN ALEXIE

"Creation Story", Mudlark Flash, 2011


Heat lightning prowls, pranks the mountain horizon like
Memory. I follow the soundless flicker,
As ridge after ridge, as outline of peak after peak,
Is momentarily defined in the
Pale wash, the rose-flush, of distance.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

"Heat Lightning", The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren

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The flash at midnight!--'twas a light
That gave the blind a moment's sight,
Then sunk in tenfold gloom;
Loud, deep, and long the thunder broke,
The deaf ear instantly awoke,
Then closed as in the tomb:
An angel might have pass'd my bed,
Sounded the trump of GOD, and fled.

JAMES MONTGOMERY

"Winter Lightning", Poetical Works of James Montgomery

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Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

FLAMMARION

attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12


Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

MARK TWAIN

Twain: Wit and Wisecracks


The lightning flashing in the heavens is like the fire of musketry from a hostile army.

CORA AGNEW

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.

JENNIFER BOSWORTH

Struck


To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform,
Which, back'd with thunder, do but gild a storm.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Poetical Works of John Dryden

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Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

FLAMMARION

attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12


To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder,
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick, cross lightning.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear


In the dark clouds the sharp flashes of impulsive lightning are born.

ELIS WYN

attributed, Day's Collacon


The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

WILLIE TYLER

attributed, Seventeenth Century Review


The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth;
And ere a man can say--Behold!
The jaws of darkness devour it up.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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