Darkness

Famous quotes containing the word darkness:

“Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and her groom.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“True Friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. A want of discernment cannot be an ingredient in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A darkness out of Asia that had crossed
Old Attic grace and Spartan discipline
With violence.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)