Shadows

Famous quotes containing the word shadows:

    “When the night’s coming and the last light falls
    A weak child among lost shadows on the floor....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The One remains, the many change and pass;
    Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;
    Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
    Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
    Until Death tramples it to fragments.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)