“We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A Flash of Silence,” p. 109
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”

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poet, writer, and businessman 1959

John Webster The White Devil

Act IV, scene 4. Compare Distance.
The White Devil (1612)

“You are… you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.”

Juliet Marillier book Heart's Blood

Source: Heart's Blood

“Patience in a person glows like a jewel.”

Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib

[Mizan al-Hikmah, Muhammadi Reishahri, Muhammad, Dar al-Hadith, 2010, 3, Qum, 217]
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“You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

Source: Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

“The holy world glows like a lightening bug.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator

“The Fruit Bearer,” p. 29
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Forest of the Universe”

“The water is calm and still below,
For the winds and waves are absent there,
And the sands are bright as the stars that glow
In the motionless fields of upper air.”

James Gates Percival (1795–1856) American geologis, poet, and surgeon

The coral Grove, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven,
Although on earth ’tis planted,
Where its honours blow,
While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven
Which die the while they glow.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870)

“We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.”

Asger Jorn (1914–1973) Danish artist

On being an pictorial artist (1950), as quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 5
1949 - 1958, Various sources

“Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.”

Robert Herrick book Hesperides

"The Night Piece to Julia".
Hesperides (1648)

“We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.”

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