„Far between sundown’s finish an’ midnight’s broken toll,We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing.As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds,Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing.Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight,Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight,An’ for each an’ ev’ry underdog soldier in the night,An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.“

— Bob Dylan

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„Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail,The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder,That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breezeLeaving only bells of lightning and its thunderStriking for the gentle, striking for the kind,Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind,An’ the poet and the painter far behind his rightful timeAn’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.“
— Bob Dylan
„At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea.Standing there on Freedom's shore.Waiting for the sun…“
— Jim Morrison
„The birds of night peck at the first starsthat flash like my soul when I love you.“
— Pablo Neruda
„Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.“
— Hermann Hesse
„We will worship by impromptu symbols, till the religion is framed for all Humanity. The beauty grows around us daily, the trees are now all in blossom and some of the vines; there is a Crown Imperial just in perfection, to which I paid my evening worship by the light of the fire, which reached to us, and there are flashes of lightening too. But I do not like the lightening so well as once, having been in too great danger. Yet just now a noble flash falls upon my paper, it ought to have noble thoughts to illumine, instead of these little nothings, but indeed to-night I write only to say: thou dear, dear friend, and we must must meet soon.“
— Margaret Fuller
„Defenceless under the nightOur world in stupor lies;Yet, dotted everywhere,Ironic points of lightFlash out wherever the JustExchange their messages:May I, composed like themOf Eros and of dust,Beleaguered by the sameNegation and despair,Show an affirming flame.“
— W. H. Auden
„We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own.“
— Jean Paul Sartre