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
Read more about Beautiful Shadows in New Books & Music That Illuminate the Beauty of Shadows Now, The Art & Science of Earth’s Shadows Now, Drink in Beautiful Shadows: Lemonade in the Shade, The Experimental Art of Shadows Now and Best Places to See Magnificent Shadows Now.
And check out more beautiful things happening now in BN Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact Daily Fix posts.
IMAGE CREDITS:
- Image: by Georgie Pauwels. Look into the Wide.
- Image: by mojitopt. Milonga.
- Image: by Schjelderup. Because You Never Know.
- Image: by Focka. Lady Gaga @ Estádio do Morumbi.
- Image: by Steve Jurvetson. Impromptu.
- Image: by Isabel. The Road Before the Curve.
- Image: by Miss Nixie. Shadow Beach.
- Image: by Theophilos Papadopoulos. Untitled.
- Image: by Riccardo Cuppini. Poetry.
- Image: by Sarah Ross. Winter Beach Shadows.
- Image: by Andre Vandal. Waiting for the 125 Bus.
- Image: by Daniel Manners. Cape Town Winter Sunrise.
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- Image: by Rui Miguel Matos. Amazing Shadows.