“At the same time welcome Night brings on the star-heralding shadows.”
Source: Argonautica, Book VI, Line 752
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Nox simul astriferas profert optabilis umbras.
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Gaius Valerius Flaccus 54
Roman poet and writer 45–95Related quotes
“Night my banner, and my herald Fear.”
"An Upper Chamber" http://www.bartleby.com/101/878.html
The Beetle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.”
Second chorus, lines 1-12.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Context: Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran,
Pleasure with pain for leaven,
Summer with flowers that fell,
Remembrance fallen from heaven,
And Madness risen from hell,
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (c. November–December 1928)
Letters
Speech in the House of Commons, March 22, 1944 "War Decorations" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/mar/22/war-decorations-and-medals#column_872.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
1950s
Source: Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990; p. 145
“Shadows…bring softness to every thing. An object and its shadow are softness and hardness.”
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)