The sun in 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, they compare loved ones with the sun, solar heat is a poetic image of love as a means of external design of feelings and emotions.
Rigveda
One of the first literary texts known to mankind - the source of quotes about the sun is the Rigveda hymn, known as the Gayatri Mantra:
We want to meet this coveted brilliance of the god Savitar, which should encourage our poetic thoughts!
(The Rigveda, 3 Mandala, verse 62.10).
The ancient Hindus considered the Sun to be the Deity-Savitar, the Sun has been addressed to it today, 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 ideas of the Indians was associated with an active masculine power, dynamic and at the same time giving the necessary heat in its restraint, controllability, and rationality. While the Moon is Chandra, the Indians considered, in contrast, a female manifestation, placing them on a par with other deities that control celestial objects.
Middle Ages
When the time comes, so that the embryo regains its soul, the sun will then turn to him as an assistant.
This embryo will come in motion from the sun, for the sun hastily grants his soul to him.
From other stars, nothing but [their] imprint was received by that embryo until the sun shone on it.
This is another great quote about the sun, authored by Jalaladdin Rumi, a medieval Persian mystic poet (Masnavi, 1 Daftar, 3775-3777). The mystical experience of the Sufis is largely related to the sun - the opening of a person’s inner sun is considered to be his turn to its 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, daily for many years. In the same way, human actions for the Sufi speak for themselves.
And here’s what an original sketch related to the sun is in the work of a Chinese poet, “the demon and angel of poetry” of the 7th century, Bo-Ju-I, “Driving Through Ancient Loan” (translation by L. Eidlin, M. Fiction, 1978 .):
In front of the gates of the old city
askew spring sun.
And beyond the gates of the old city
the house will not be residential.
I wanted to see the palaces and the square,
but I don’t recognize these places:
Here, in desolation, the fields are endless
dry herbs are worn.
For everyone who “peers” into the work, the “slanting” sun serves here as a kind of reference point for the whole picture of desolation that has appeared. As a kind of key, the sun can open and close the connection with deeper poetic dimensions. Indeed, to the extent that the poetic image of the sun, described by bright, vibrant colors, can revive the work, the same “oblique" spring sun gives it downfall, desolation and doom, which nevertheless only emphasizes its special importance.
English literature
Probably, even from the time of the construction of Stonehenge, the ancestors of the English had a special connection with the sun, which did not spoil the Misty Albion too much. And Shakespeare, and Burns, and many others did not ignore the sun in their works. You can cite many quotes about the sun in English, for example, the greatest English poet of the Romantic era, Percy Bish Shelley writes about the sun in his poem The Cloud (passage 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 the lit 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.
(translation by V. Levik)
Because of the distant mountains, casting a fiery look,
Red feathers bloody sunrise
Jumped out of the darkness to my stern
The sun raised from distant waters.
So the mighty eagle will throw a gloomy dol
And take off, golden, like in a fire
On a white-headed cliff, shaken by lava,
Boiling in the depths of the earth.
If the waters sleep, if the sunset is quiet
Love and peace pour on the world
If, red and shiny, scarlet evening cloak
Fell to the seashore
I'm napping in the air nest in height
Like a dove covered in leaves.
I would especially like to note here the rhythm of the verse, which connects and displays the dynamism, inner strength and energy of the poetic image and the sun, and the eagle, which controls it as a kind of “spirit”.
Russian literature
“The Sun of Russian Poetry” Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin repeatedly addressed the sun in verse. “Frost and sun, wonderful day”, this quote about the sun firmly entered the language as one of the forms of expression of the Russian soul. The luminaries also paid great attention to M. Lermontov, S. Yesenin, A. Blok and many others. Among quotes about sunset , the poem by Fedor Tyutchev “Evening” is especially picturesque, which, as it were, “outlines” the light along the contour without touching it:
How quietly it blows over the valley
Distant bell ringing
Like the rustle of a flock of cranes, -
And in the noise of the leaves he froze.
Like the sea is more spring in the flood
Brighten, the day does not flutter, -
And hurry, be silent
A shadow lays in the valley.
Obviously, the sun is a source of inspiration for anyone who is truly looking for it. In any sphere of our life, no matter what a person is engaged in, in difficulties or in joys, turning his gaze to the sky, a person will surely find there warmth and hope that will joyfully resonate in his heart, warming from the inside.