“One by one the stars fell into the sea, the sky drained of its last lights.”
Albert Camus
more infosource: Notebook IX, in Albert Camus: Notebooks 1951–1959, trans. by Ryan Bloom (Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2008), 244.
category: dusk, light, night, ocean, sky, star
medium: Notebook
“Light is not easily perceived unless it falls on something. And much of the time the largest, most complex object visible outdoors will be a tree, or a mass of them—a wood, a forest. Therefore it is often when we look at trees that we actually see the beauty of a certain light.”
Martin Gayford
more infosource: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011), 110.
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“Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
more infosource: “Anthem,” The Future (Columbia, November, 1992).
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category: crack, imperfection, light
medium: lyric
notes: Arranged by Leonard Cohen, Rebecca De Mornay, and Yoav Goren
via: Nellie Perera“I’m married to my calling, but I’m not married to a particular woman. I have no pets. My apartment is full of books and records, the light of Toni Morrison and John Coltrane.”
Cornel West
more infosource: “Called Far and Wide to Touch Minds,” by Cara Buckley, The New York Times, January 22, 2010.
category: calling, home, John Coltrane, light, marriage, routine, Toni Morrison
medium: newspaper interview
“…and because the light will enlarge your days, your dreams at night will be as strange as the jars of octopus you saw once in a fisherman’s boat under the summer moon…”
Robert Hass
more infosource: “Late Spring,” in A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (New York: Harcourt Bracy & Company), 27.
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category: dream, fisherman, light, moon, summer
medium: poetry
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“In spring the almost enclosed sheet of water that separated Corfu from the mainland would be a pale and delicate blue, and then as spring settled into hot, crackling summer, it seemed to stain the still sea a deeper and more unreal color, which in some lights seemed like the violet blue of a rainbow, a blue that faded to a rich jade green in the shallows. In the evening when the sun sank, it was as if it were drawing a brush across the sea’s surface, streaking and blurring it to purples smudged with gold, silver, tangerine and pale pink.”
Gerald Durrell
more infosource: Fauna and Family (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), 16–17.
category: color, Corfu, Greece, island, light, ocean, sea, sunset
medium: nonfiction
“A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.”
Elbert Hubbard
more infosource: The Motto Book (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1920), 7.
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category: charity, devotion, faith, future, light, love, past, patience
medium: nonfiction
“The sun shines brighter after a shower.”
Proverb
more infosource: 1001 Yiddish Proverbs, by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 82.
category: light, nature, proverb, rain, sun, sunlight, Yiddish proverbs
medium: proverb
notes: Yiddish translation: Di zun sheint lichtiker noch a regen.
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
Louis Brandeis
more infosource: Other People’s Money: and How the Bankers Use It (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914), 92.
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category: disease, disinfectant, light, police, publicity, sunlight, transparency
medium: nonfiction
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