I saw the first light, fore-running the sun, gather in a cup of the eastern cloud, gather and grow and brim, till at last it spilled like milk over the golden lip, to smear the dark face of heaven from end to end. From east to north, and back to south again, the clouds slackened, the stars, trembling on the verge of extinction, guttered in the dawn wind, and the gates of day were ready to open at the trumpet.. Mary Stewart
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More Quotes By Mary Stewart
  1. The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
  2. The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.
  3. Used every man according to his capacity.
  4. At breakfast! ' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.
  5. Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.
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