IDEAS & IMAGES: THE BEAUTY OF SHADOWS NOW

Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself.

--- Parker Palmer

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

--- Carl Sandburg

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

--- Ursula K. Le Guin

If you don’t have any shadows you're not in the light.

--- Lady Gaga

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

--- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.

--- Shannon L. Alder

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

--- Anaïs Nin

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

--- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

--- Jane Austen

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

--- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Georgie Pauwels. Look into the Wide.
2. Image: by mojitopt. Milonga.
3. Image: by Schjelderup. Because You Never Know.
4. Image: by Focka. Lady Gaga @ Estádio do Morumbi.
5. Image: by Steve Jurvetson. Impromptu.
6. Image: by Isabel. The Road Before the Curve.
7. Image: by Miss Nixie. Shadow Beach.
8. Image: by Theophilos Papadopoulos. Untitled.
9. Image: by Riccardo Cuppini. Poetry.
10. Image: by Sarah Ross. Winter Beach Shadows.
11. Image: by Andre Vandal. Waiting for the 125 Bus.
12. Image: by Daniel Manners. Cape Town Winter Sunrise.
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Rui Miguel Matos. Amazing Shadows.