Shadows

Famous quotes containing the word shadows:

“On white linen the silk
of gray shadows ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The sun is shining.
The shadows of the lovers have disappeared.
They are all eyes; they have some demand on me—
They want me to be more serious than I want to be.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

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