Breathing in the Light

Dawn, that first glimmer of light in the sky before the sun yawns, stretches and gets his lazy ass out of bed, is THE most beautiful time of day.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
~ Leonora Carrington

Everything IS breathing, they're just being supremely quiet about it.

In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.
~ Arthur Rimbaud, Season in Hell Other Poems

OR just stay here, on the beach. Yep, I'll be down in the sand and surf if you need me.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
~ John Ruskin, The Two Paths

Every dawn is born with its own unique hope!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan

I cannot help but feel hopeful at dawn. The planet spins – life continues. Today the light may indeed win.

 Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

You are the trembling of time, that passes
between vertical light and darkened sky
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

SHEESH, with lines like that I'm sure ol' Pablo Honey never slept alone.

Tess was awake before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.
~ Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

That bird? He just couldn't sleep. Had nothing to do with knowing or really caring about the actual time.

And when the dawn comes creeping in,
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.
~ D.H. Lawrence

Of the things we fashioned for them, that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.
~ John Banville, The Infinities

TRUTH! And then the sun showed up.