It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.