LIGHTNING QUOTES III
quotations about lightning
The flash at midnight!--'twas a light
That gave the blind a moment's sight,
Then sunk in tenfold gloom;
Loud, deep, and long the thunder broke,
The deaf ear instantly awoke,
Then closed as in the tomb:
An angel might have pass'd my bed,
Sounded the trump of GOD, and fled.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
"Winter Lightning", Poetical Works of James Montgomery
Heat lightning prowls, pranks the mountain horizon like
Memory. I follow the soundless flicker,
As ridge after ridge, as outline of peak after peak,
Is momentarily defined in the
Pale wash, the rose-flush, of distance.
ROBERT PENN WARREN
"Heat Lightning", The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform,
Which, back'd with thunder, do but gild a storm.
JOHN DRYDEN
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
MARK TWAIN
Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
So Lightning says to Mud,
"What would happen if I struck your blood?"
And Mud says, "Brother,
It would hurt,
And make me the mother
Of every living thing.
But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirt
Until you burn me a ring."
SHERMAN ALEXIE
"Creation Story", Mudlark Flash, 2011
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
HARRY HERSHFIELD
Now I'll Tell One
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
FLAMMARION
attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12
In the dark clouds the sharp flashes of impulsive lightning are born.
ELIS WYN
attributed, Day's Collacon
When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.
JENNIFER BOSWORTH
Struck
Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
"Interview: Carlos Ruiz Zafon", The Scotsman, Jun. 13, 2010
Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.
FLAMMARION
attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12
Lightning my pilot sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;
Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
"The Cloud"
Lightning does the work; thunder takes the credit.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Thunder and lightning among the clouds are matched by storms of passion within me as terrible as they.
FRANK CRANE
"The Part of Me That Doubts", Four Minute Essays
The tidings, to our world ossicious sent,
Through Albion's isles on wing of lightning went.
WILLIAM STEVENSON
"On the Death of the Reverend Mr. James Hervey", Original Poems on Several Subjects
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth;
And ere a man can say--Behold!
The jaws of darkness devour it up.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
EVAN ESAR
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