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  • I am luminous with age.

    Age   Luminous  
    Meridel Le Sueur (1970). “Corn Village: A Selection”
  • At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.

    Believe   Soul   Praying  
  • Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

    Life   Halos   Lamps  
    1919 'Modern Fiction'.
  • I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in Dadaistic activities. It was clear, luminous, simple without being banal, precise without being narrow; it was a style adapted to the expression of thought as well as of emotion. I connected this style with the Dadaistic exercises themselves

    War   Exercise   Simple  
    Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.265, Verso
  • Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

    Stars   Kindness   Dizzy  
  • The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

    Moon   Two   Perfect  
    Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart
  • The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.

    Sweet   Home   Son  
    Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1945, Library of America
  • When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.

    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

    Summer   Running   Book  
    Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library
  • He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

    Clouds   Dust   Perfect  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.227, Bantam
  • Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

    Taken   Eye   Feet  
    Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”
  • You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.

    Sun   Seven   Adore  
    Juliette Drouet (2015). “Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo”, p.88, 谷月社
  • Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

  • A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.

  • A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime.

    Powerful   Light   Years  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

    Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.9, Om Books International
  • The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.

  • I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

    Dream   Art   Writing  
  • To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.

    Football   Eye   Player  
    "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.
  • There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

    Book   Reading   Writing  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin
  • ...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

    Hero   Needs   Caves  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Last Continent: (Discworld Novel 22)”, p.383, Random House
  • I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

    Sibling   Eye   Dark  
    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.
  • The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.

  • Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

    Beauty   Daughter   Eye  
    Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing
  • A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.

    Art   Lying   Spring  
    John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.151, Courier Corporation
  • Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.

    Art   Book   Past  
  • I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

    The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
  • When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

  • let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

    Freedom   Hero   Air  
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.81, Library of America
  • Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

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