A few quotes about the sun

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The sun in the literature and art of all times and peoples has been and remains one of the most attractive and exciting objects. Quotes about the sun are always lively, poetic in nature, loved ones are compared with the sun, solar warmth is a poetic image of love as a means of outward expression of feelings and emotions.

Rigveda

One of the first literary texts known to mankind - the source of quotes about the sun is the hymn of the Rig Veda, known as the Gayatri Mantra:

We want to meet this coveted brilliance of the god Savitar, which should encourage our poetic thoughts!

(“Rigveda”, 3rd mandala, verse 62.10).

The ancient Hindus considered the sun to be the Deity-Savitar, they addressed and still address it, since the Gayatri Mantra remains one of the most important and fundamental in Hinduism. Each word of this mantra is filled with symbolism, many thoughts are born around Savitar and his divine essence. The sun, in the minds of the Hindus, was associated with an active masculine force, dynamic and at the same time providing the necessary warmth inits restraint, manageability, reasonableness. While the Moon is Chandra, the Hindus considered, on the contrary, a female manifestation, putting them on a par with other deities who control celestial objects.

Middle Ages

When the time comes for the fetus to acquire a soul, the sun will then turn to help him.

This embryo will be set in motion by the sun, for the sun favors its soul in a hurry.

From other stars, nothing but [their] imprint received that embryo until the sun shone on it.

This is another great quote about the sun by Jalaladdin Rumi, a medieval Persian mystic poet (“Masnavi”, 1 daftar, 3775-3777). The mystical experience of the Sufis is largely connected with the sun - the revelation of the inner sun of a person is considered to be his turn to his origins. The Sufi says: the proof of the existence of the sun is the sun itself, if you require proof, look. Indeed, why talk a lot about what speaks for itself, every day for many years. In the same way, human deeds for a Sufi speak for themselves.

And here is an original sketch related to the sun, in the work of the Chinese poet, "demon and angel of poetry" of the 7th century, Bo-Ju-Yi, "Passing through ancient Loan" (translated by L. Eidlin, M. Hood.literature, 1978):

In front of the gates of the old city

slant spring sun.

And outside the gates of the old city

the house will not be habitable.

I wanted to see palaces and squares, but these places are notfind out:

Here, in the wilderness, endless fields

dry herbs are worn.

For everyone who "peers" at the work, the "oblique" sun here serves as a kind of reference point for the entire picture of desolation. As a kind of key, the sun can both open and close the connection with deeper poetic dimensions. Indeed, to the extent that the poetic image of the sun, described in bright, lively colors, can enliven the work, to the same extent the "oblique" spring sun gives it defeat, desolation and doom, which nevertheless only emphasizes its special importance.

English literature

Probably, since the time of the construction of Stonehenge, the ancestors of the British had a special connection with the sun, which did not spoil Foggy Albion too much. And Shakespeare, and Burns, and many others did not ignore the sun in their works. There are many quotations about the sun in English, for example, the greatest English poet of the Romantic era, Percy Bysshe Shelley, writes about the sun in his poem The Cloud (excerpt III):

The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of sailing rack, When the morning star shines dead

As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit, In the light of its golden wings.

And when Sunset may breathe, from thelit sea beneath, Its ardours of rest and of love, And the crimson pall of eve may fall

From the depth of Heaven above.

With wings folded I rest, on mine aery nest, As still as a brooding dove.

(translated by V. Levik)

Because of the distant mountains, casting a fiery gaze, In red feathers a bloody sunrise

Jumped, displacing the darkness, on my stern, The sun rose from distant waters.

So the mighty eagle will throw a gloomy valley

And take off, golden as on fire, On the white-headed cliff, shaken by lava, Boiling in the depths of the earth.

If the waters sleep, if the quiet sunset

Pours love and peace into the world, If, red and shiny, scarlet evening cloak

Fell on the seashore, I'm in the air nest napping in the air, Like a dove covered in leaves.

I would especially like to note here the rhythm of the verse, which connects and shows the dynamism, inner strength and energy of the poetic image and the sun, and the eagle, which, like a kind of “spirit”, controls it.

Russian Literature

“The Sun of Russian Poetry” Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin repeatedly addressed the sun in his poetry. “Frost and sun, a wonderful day”, - this quote about the sun has firmly entered the language as one of the forms of expression of the Russian soul. The luminary was also given great attention by M. Lermontov, S. Yesenin, A. Blok and many others. Among the quotes about the sunset, Fyodor Tyutchev’s poem “Evening” is especially picturesque, which, as it were, “outlines” the luminary alongpath without touching it:

How soft it blows over the valley

Distant chimes, Like the rustle of a flock of cranes, -

And he froze in the noise of the leaves.

Like the spring sea in flood, Brightening, the day does not sway, -

And hurry, be silent

Shadow falls across the valley.

Obviously, the sun is an inspiration for anyone who truly seeks it. In any area of our life, no matter what a person does, in difficulties or in joys, turning his gaze to the sky, a person will definitely find warmth and hope there, which will resonate with joy in his heart, warming from the inside.