“The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.”
— Mikhail Lermontov, book A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)
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