Es war eine neue Sonne über mir, und Land und See und Luft genoß ich wie zum ersten Male.

Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion
 
For in and out, above, about, below,
‚Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Play’d in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald

I am Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow said the Sun. And I am You said the Moon.

Etel Adnan