Action now shrouds, now shows the informing thought: Man, like a glass ball with a spark a-top, Out of the magic fire that lurks inside, Shows one tint at a time to take the eye Which, let a finger touch the silent sleep, Shifted a hair's-breadth shoots you dark for bright, suffuses bright with dark, and baffles so Your sentence absolute for shine or shade.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
If poetry is an atmosphere that suffuses literature, it may bathe most various ideas.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The kindly deed that is wasted, the lofty or only loyal thought that falls on barren ground-these too have their value, for the light they throw differs far from the radiance triumphant virtue suffuses; and thus may we see many things in their differing aspect.
"Wisdom and Destiny"
Maurice Maeterlinck