Lustre

Famous quotes containing the word lustre:

“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“After a lustre of the moon, we say
We have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)