Life itself is but the shadow of death and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Not the torturer will scare me nor the body's final fall nor the barrels of death's rifles nor the shadows on the wall nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless unfeeling world.
Like many of you I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows ' which I followed avidly as a kid.
It feels quite cool in a mad way to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows the light and darkness which that thing provides.
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows the light and dark which that thing provides.
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.