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Shining Quotes - Page 36

It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

William Carlos Williams, Edith Heal (1978). “I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.

William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

"An Essay on Translated Verse" by Wentworth Dillon, line 216, 1684.

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.

Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.13, University Press of Kentucky

I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)