513 Quotes About Sunset
- Author John Coldstream
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Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ...
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- Author Alberto Caeiro
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The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?
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- Author Lionel Johnson
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Mine is the sultry sunset when the skiesTremble with strange, intolerable thunder:And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyesDraw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder
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- Author George Sterling
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When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous...(“A Wine of Wizardry”)
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- Author Ellen Glasgow
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The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house.
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- Author Claude Debussy
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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
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- Author Laura Treacy Bentley
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The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver.
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- Author Victoria Kahler
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A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colors of the twilight sky.
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- Author Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below the horizon, and simultaneously to lift an orange moon at the other. Only two days off the full, it rose behind a wood, swiftly losing its flush as it floated up, until the wheat loomed out of the twilight like a metallic and prickly sea.
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