They say the sun an-a shines for all,
But-a yin some people world, it never shine at all.

They say the sun shines for all But in some people world it never shine at all.

...skies and clouds were still regarded as something quite apart from the rest of the picture, and, indeed, are still so regarded by the less advanced.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry, Of the torches wisping in the underground, Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light. There are no shadows in our sun, Day is desire and night is sleep. There are no shadows anywhere. The earth, for us, is flat and bare. There are no shadows.

The sky cannot have two suns.

But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

I do not yearn for the cloud for I am not the rain. I am the sheer cloud itself, without whose presence there is no existence of rain.

People take the sky for granted, they don’t look up enough

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

If you don’t shine you are darkness.

from “Tomorrow

We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows.

And as the sun is of no profit to the blind,
so Heaven's light denies its bounty
to the shades in the place of which I speak.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.