“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.”

“And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings…”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“The periodic table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as light, love, logic, and time, that are not in the periodic table. But you can't drop any of those things on your foot.”

Theodore Gray book The Elements

“.. the light suggests no particular time of day or night [in the paintings of Paul Cézanne ]; it is not appropriated from morning or afternoon, sunlight or shadow.”

Clyfford Still (1904–1980) American artist

“The light of morning decomposes everything.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

“Coming in with the golden light
In the morning.
Coming in with the golden light
Is the New Man.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“Time is an illusion.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.”

Ellen Kushner (1955) American writer

“Amber light
Of this new morning,
Amber light,
Clear, bright and warming.
Overnight
The Earth adorning…
Amber light,
A New Age is dawning….”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist