“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
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Edith Wharton103
American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862–1937Related quotes
Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter
in The Romantics were prompted, essay by Mark Rothko, 1947/48; as quoted in Possibilities, vol 1, no. 1, winter 1947-48, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christophor Rothko.
1940's
“Silence and coolness now the earth enfold”
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
"A Summer Night"
By Still Waters (1906)
Context: Silence and coolness now the earth enfold:
Jewels of glittering green, long mists of gold,
Hazes of nebulous silver veil the height,
And shake in tremors through the shadowy night.
Heard through the stillness, as in whispered words,
The wandering God-guided wings of birds
Ruffle the dark. The little lives that lie
Deep hid in grass join in a long-drawn sigh
More softly still; and unheard through the blue
The falling of innumerable dew,
Lifts with grey fingers all the leaves that lay
Burned in the heat of the consuming day.
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche, in his letter to Franz Overbeck, 2 July 1885 [original in German]
M - R, Friedrich Nietzsche
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“The Bones of the Earth” (p. 134)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“So dear a life your arms enfold,
Whose crying is a cry for gold.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
The Daisy, Stanza 24; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
