"Timeless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... above me With wings of death, and a face of cold clear beauty. . I lay in the warm sweet grass on a blue May morning, My chin in a dandelion, my hands in clover, And drowsed there like a bee. . . . blue days behind me Stretched like a chain of deep blue pools of magic, Enchanted, silent, timeless. . . . days before me Murmured of blue-sea mornings, noons of gold, Green evenings streaked with lilac, bee-starred nights. Confused soft clouds ...
— The House of Dust - A Symphony • Conrad Aiken
... elaborate deviltry of the late Renaissance. At times his winged words seemed to flutter down the page frantically like Baroque angels; at other times nothing could have more adequately described his manner than the timeless calm of the ...
— The House of the Vampire • George Sylvester Viereck
... Chaldean hills a moulder of the heavenly spheres; "On Guebre steppes the Timeless-God who governs by ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... Bible used in the inauguration of our first President, in 1789, and I have just taken the oath of office on the Bible my mother gave me a few years ago, opened to a timeless admonition from the ancient ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various
... pass our exile from the starry ways: One timeless hour in time we caught from the long night of endless days. With solemn gaiety the stars danced far withdrawn on elfin heights: The lilac breathed amid the shade of green and blue and citron lights. But yet the close enfolding night seemed on the phantom ...
— The Nuts of Knowledge - Lyrical Poems New and Old • George William Russell
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