LIGHTNING QUOTES III
quotations about lightning
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
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
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
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
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
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
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
MARK TWAIN
Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
NORMAN MAILER
Ancient Evenings
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder,
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick, cross lightning.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
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
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
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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