Quotes and poems about lighthouses

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Quotes, aphorisms, proverbs and sayings about lighthouses

• “Lighthouses are shrines of the seas. They belong to everyone and are inviolable, like plenipotentiary representatives of the powers” Konstantin Paustovsky

• Lighthouses don’t run all over the island, looking for which boat to save, they just stand there and shine. (Anne Lamott on parenting)

• A lighthouse to a sailor is like a path to a walker

• It’s always dark under a lighthouse (Japanese proverb)

• Those who lag behind remain in the memory, but those who have gone ahead become beacons. (Valery Afonchenko)

• Mistrust is the beacon of the sage, but it can be broken by it. (Pierre Buast)

• Love is a beacon raised above the storm, not fading in the darkness and fog, Love is the star with which the sailor determines his place in the ocean. (William Shakespeare)

• You shouldn’t rely on public opinion. This is not a lighthouse, but will-o'-the-wisps. (Andre Maurois)

• A sharp-sighted sailor is like a firefly.

• Each lighthouse shines in its own way.

• The most desired light for a sailor is the fire of his native lighthouse.

“In general, lighthouses have very interesting symbolism. What modern life is is life almost completely without lighthouses. And even churches are different for different faiths. And lighthouses are for everyone.”  Regina-Maria Astakhova (Source see)

“It seems to me that at the lighthouses themselves you experience something similar to what happens to you in the temple. And even purely architecturally, these are echoes, these stairs. Some kind of secret place where there is no one and where you are alone with some magical power. And the people working at the lighthouses are also special. They live, constantly blown by the winds, alone with the world, they are deprived of the stress of our noisy city life.” Andrey Eigus (Source see)

Poems about lighthouses

*Into the empty lighthouse, into the azure of the window cavities,

The autumn wind blows and, ringing,

It's buzzing upstairs. It's damp and cool

It intoxicates me with its freshness.

Stopping on a steep staircase,

I look out the window. The surf is roaring below

And the swell runs. And above is the vault of heaven

And the ocean is hazy blue.

Below is the sound of waves, and above, like strings,

The grating of the lighthouse rings and sings.

And everything floats: the lighthouse, the bay, the breakers,

And me, and the heavens, and the clouds.*

I.A. Bunin. At the lighthouse (1903-1904)

Beacon of Love

My heart is like a lighthouse

It won’t warm up in any way, it won’t warm up in any way.

But he will accept everyone more reliably

I give my loved ones light, I give my loved ones light.

I live to the rhythm of the storm

I call my love

I call my distant love.

In a sea of splashes and troubles

My heart is like a lighthouse

My heart is like a mysterious lighthouse.

I bring a mysterious light.

Come to me and I will save you!

No wonder it burns in the distance of the night

Beacon of love, beacon of love!

Now in freedom, now in captivity,

Alternating light and dark, alternating light and dark,

I'm sad like a lighthouse

About unfulfilled seas, about unfulfilled seas.

About the unfulfilled you,

About forgetful fate,

About insidious and forgetful fate,

About everyone I saved

When the ninth wave was coming,

When this life was on its ninth wave.

Think about how many years

I give hope light, I give hope light.

Why, I don’t understand

Do people choose darkness, do people choose darkness?

But when in the darkness of the night

You're dating me

You are dating me, my love,

The darkness of life recedes,

My heart is like a lighthouse

My heart is like a mysterious lighthouse.

I bring a mysterious light.

Come to me and I will save you!

No wonder it burns in the distance of the night

Beacon of love, beacon of love!

Nikolai Dobronravov

If there is anything reliable in the world, it is the light of a beacon.

Tove Jansson

"In any case, this is mine," thought Moominpappa, lighting it

handset. “I will capture the lighthouse, I will present it to my family and say: “This is where we will live. We are safe inside, nothing bad can happen to us there."

Tove Jansson The Pope and the Sea

Poems by Joseph Brodsky about lighthouses