Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.
The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.
Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly anyway, what’s there to be worried about?
A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.
I don't know what good composition is. . . . Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.
Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.
[. . . ] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.
Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.
Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a stack of cards. That is what it is like, the awful, wonderful brightness of Fairy colors. Try to smell the hard, pale wood sending up sharp, green smoke into the afternoon. To feel the mellow, golden sun on your skin, more gentle and cozier and more golden than even the light of your favorite reading nook at the close of the day.
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
My first memory is of the brightness of light. . . light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground. . . very large white pillows.
The studious silence of the library. . . Tranquil brightness.