“Shadows in shadows
He watches through
dreams
Wings black as Africa
Body strong as stone
Done waiting
The ravens call.”

Source: Hunted

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American writer 1986

Kristin Cast book Hunted

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“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

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“Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Source: Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879), Ch. 25

“Night is a stealthy, evil raven, wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) American poet, novelist, editor

“A substitute for all the gods:
This self, not that gold self aloft,
Alone, one's shadow magnified,
Lord of the body, looking down,
As now and called most high,
The shadow of Chocorua
In an immenser heaven, aloft,
Alone, lord of the land and lord
Of the men that live in the land, high lord.
One's self and the mountains of one's land,
Without shadows, without magnificence,
The flesh, the bone, the dirt, the stone.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

"Where are we?" in Ch. 2 : Bewilderment
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

“Hence, as Narcissus, by catching at the shadow, plunged himself in the stream and disappeared, so he who is captivated by beautiful bodies, and does not depart from their embrace, is precipitated, not with his body, but with his soul, into a darkness profound and repugnant to intellect (the higher soul), through which, remaining blind both here and in Hades, he associates with shadows.”

Plotinus (203–270) Neoplatonist philosopher

First Ennead, Book VI, as translated by Thomas Taylor, The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: A Dissertation https://books.google.com/books?id=vEt0LaOue8IC (1891) pp. 43-44. <br class="br">The First Ennead (c. 250)