Famous quotes containing the word darker:
“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the worlds tide is bearing me along;
Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”
—Emily Brontë (18181848)
“Dark
days are past
and darker days draw near;
darkness on this side,
darkness over there
threatens the spirit.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“So summer comes in the end to these few stains
And the rust and rot of the door through which she went.
The house is empty. But here is where she sat
To comb her dewy hair, a touchless light,
Perplexed by its darker iridescences.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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