hello lovely, i was wondering if there were any quotes or passages about the sun? or comparing one to the sun
“You kiss the back of my legs and I want to cry. Only / the sun has come this close, only the sun.”
“If I’m a pagan of the good times / My lover’s the sunlight”
— Hozier, “Take Me to Church”
“In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“yours is the light by which my spirit’s born:
yours is the darkness of my soul’s return
–-you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars.”
— E.E. Cummings, “silently if, out of not knowable”
“As long as the sun exists, your name will exist.”
— from a wall relief on the West Wall in the Chapel of Rameses I
“There are souls that you feel to lean forward to, like a sun-filled window.”
— Federico García Lorca, source unknown
“Your belly the sun, / sun in the water, / sun-water in the earthen jar,
sunflower seed I planted in my chest…”
— Octavio Paz, “A Tale of Two Gardens”
“Her Spanish sounds like sunlight drying a wet shirt.
And in the process, I’ve grown fond of her.
She’s delicadeza, a word that names her nature.
Whose dream deepens in the rain? Whose hair is lilacs?”
— Eugene Gloria, “The Verb To Lick”
“And even if they don’t find what they’re looking for, isn’t it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?”
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
“You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed.”
— Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
She was a pure spirit, easily susceptible to emotion; one moment she’d be crying, the next laughing, like sunshine after a shower.
— Gustave Flaubert, in a letter to Louise Colet
“The sun comes out of your body like a fruit.”
— Homero Aridjis, Blue Spaces
I had been lost to you, sunlight
And flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight
Oh, your love is sunlight, oh
But it is sunlight
“Is it love, the way you toss your head and create the sun?”
“If you are the rising sun / I am the road of blood.”
“And there is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.”
— Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”
“Oh, your hair is red-gold, red-gold, your skin is like–sunlight on snow--”
— Tennessee Williams, “The Mutilated”
“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“The first summer was pure happiness. We were making Persona on the island; it was hot. I was experiencing another human being, he was experiencing me, and we didn’t need to talk about it. I was barefoot in the sand so fine it was as if it breathed beneath my feet. I never wondered what might come of our relationship. It was as if I were living within soft walls of sunlight and desire and…happiness.”
— Liv Ullman on Ingmar Bergman,Liv & Ingmar
“When to me you
leap and I’m born we
’re sunlight of
oneness”.
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
But then you came back again: as sun on water. I reached for you, skimmed my hands over the light of you.”
— Nicole Callihan, “The End of the Pier”
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“Lovers alone wear sunlight”
— E.E. Cummings, “unlove’s the heavenless hell and homeless home”
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