Luminous Quotes

You'll know you're in a church, you'll know the references, but it's completely different, it's luminous. - Keith Welsh

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. - Joseph Joubert

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! - Thomas Babington Macaulay

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous. - Kathleen McCarthy

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner. - Edgar Allan Poe

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. - Jeanette Winterson

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man. - William Cullen Bryant

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. - Mark Twain

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. - Lafcadio Hearn

Thou doest not know thy own destiny and doest not know that it gets its worth from thee - otherwise the luminous ruby is only a piece of stone. - Muhammad Iqbal