LIGHTNING QUOTES III
quotations about lightning
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
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
LAO TZU
attributed, The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
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"
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
PHILIP YANCEY
Disappointment with God
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder,
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick, cross lightning.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
The lightning comes on a mission of mercy, bearing healing in its train.
MISS J. TRUMBULL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
"Interview: Carlos Ruiz Zafon", The Scotsman, Jun. 13, 2010
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
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 does the work; thunder takes the credit.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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
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
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
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
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