Top Solemn Quotes

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly...

Sacrifice by its strictest definition takes something precious in exchange for the appeasement of a higher power. And abiding devotion to a cause that cannot be satisfied with a simple promise. Becaus...

Solemn Definition

(a.) Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

(a.) Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.

(a.) Stately; ceremonious; grand.

(a.) Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.

(a.) Real; earnest; downright.

(a.) Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.

(a.) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.