“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

“Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.”

“what a cold and rainy day
where on earth is the sun hid away?”

“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

“I dream that one day
we will look at each other
in the same way we look at the sun,
and we will touch each other
like the sun on earth,
and the blessings of light
will flow into our hearts.”

“Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone — and to no one.”

“When the day is done,
Down to earth then sinks the sun,
Along with everything that was lost and won,
When the day is done.”

“The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp.”

“I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps,
I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps,
His Day is marching on.”