“Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.”
“Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)”
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
“...Thou art My light and My light shall never be extinguished; why dost thou dread extinction? Thou art My glory and My glory shall fadeth not; thou art My robe and My robe shall never be outworn.”
“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”