Stars

"Those who see the great God in the sun, moon, stars, earth, air, fire, and water, and always meditate on Him only, get success in life and are the true devotees."

"Surely the stars are images of love."

"What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?"

"The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven."

"The star wasn’t poetry before the madwoman discovered it."

"I am not an arsenal of epithets or metaphors. I am the star, and the star shines. I am affirmation."

"When you reach for a star Only angels are there And it's not very far Just a step on a stair…"

"This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns."

"Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing."

"Like the lost pleiad seen no more below."

"The stars are golden fruit upon a tree All out of reach."

"I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."

"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance."

"Follow the arc to Arcturus, and on to Spica go; Then turn northwest to Regulus, the foot of the lion, Leo.It's just that far to Gemini, Where Castor and Pollux glow, Near Rigel, and Capella, And Sirius, down below."

"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?"

"The stars winked down their cryptic morse, and he had no key to their cipher."

"Stars shine but start to fade in the light Love is blind, could be wrong or it could be right In a bind telling myself it's for you"

"You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are, so do whatever it takes 'cause you can't rewind a moment in this life"

"I will look on the stars and look on thee, And read the page of thy destiny."

"Two men look out between the same prison bars: One sees the mud, the other sees the stars."

"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."

"The night is calm and cloudless, And still as still can be, And the stars come forth to listen To the music of the sea. They gather, and gather, and gather, Until they crowd the sky, And listen, in breathless silence, To the solemn litany."

"So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky."

"The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold."

"Brightest seraph, tell In which of all these shining orbs hath man His fixed seat, or fixed seat hath none, But all these shining orbs his choice to dwell."

"At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads."

"Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw."

"The starry cope Of heaven."

"And made the stars, And set them in the firmament of heav'n, T' illuminate the earth, and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night."

"Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing in their golden urns draw light, And hence the morning planet gilds her horns."

"A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars."

"I am looking at the stars. They are so far away and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs"

"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars..."

"The stars glittered like chips of ice, blue-white, colder than the air. There was some comfort in the thought that they would still shine long after the human world was done."

"Led by the light of the Mæonian star."

"Ye little stars, hide your diminish'd rays."

"I thought you understood," he said. "The world is your teacher. It will be all around you. The ocean and the wind and the stars and the moon will all teach you many things."

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."

"Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star."

"Our Jovial star reign'd at his birth."

"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."

"The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, They are all fire and every one doth shine, But there's but one in all doth hold his place."

"The stars above us govern our conditions."

"The unfolding star calls up the shepherd."

"Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."

"These blessed candles of the night."

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky!"

"Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid."

"Keen winds of cloud and vaporous drift Disrobe yon star, as ghosts that lift A snowy curtain from its place, To scan a pillow’d beauty’s face.They see her slumbering splendours lie Bedded on blue unfathom’d sky. And swoon for love and deep delight, And stillness falls on all the night."

"But who can count the stars of Heaven? Who sing their influence on this lower world?"

"You know, one of the signs that the second coming, is that the stars will fall out of the sky and land on Earth. To even write that means you don’t know what those things are. You have no concept of what the actual universe is. So everybody who tried to make proclamations about the physical universe based on Bible passages got the wrong answer."

"For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream in the same simple way as I dream about the black dots representing towns and villages on a map."

"We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied Which way please them."

"The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"As man loses touch with his 'inner being', his instinctive depths, he finds himself trapped in the world of consciousness, that is to say, in the world of other people. Any poet knows this truth; when other people sicken him, he turns to hidden resources of power inside himself, and he knows then that other people don't matter a damn. He knows the 'secret life' inside him is the reality; other people are mere shadows in comparison. but the 'shadows' themselves cling to one another. 'Man is a political animal', said Aristotle, telling one of the greatest lies in human history. Man has more in common with the hills, or with the stars, than with other men."

"When these celestial animals burst into view, I was awed by their beauty. But when they became so strongly evident (as they quickly did) that I could no longer dismiss them by an act of will, I began to feel as frightened of them as I was of falling into that midnight abyss over which they writhed; yet this was not a simple physical and instinctive fear like the other, but rather a sort of philosophical horror at the thought of a cosmos in which rude pictures of beasts and monsters had been painted with flaming suns."

"Hence Heaven looks down on earth with all her eyes."

"One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine; And light us deep into the Deity; How boundless in magnificence and might."

"Who rounded in his palm these spacious orbs * * * * * * Numerous as gliterring gems of morning dew, Or sparks from populous cities in a blaze, And set the bosom of old night on fire."

"The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant."

"The spacious firmament on nigh, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Forever singing, as they shine, The hand that made us is divine."

"The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires; All through her silent watches, gliding slow, Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go."

"When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea."

"The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity."

"A grisly meteor on his face."

"And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky."

"Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd."

"In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere That gems the starry girdle of the year."

"Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star."

"Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: cœli scrutantur plagas."

"While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star."

"Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far, Was pinned with a single star."

"Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?"

"Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes."

"All for Love, or the Lost Pleiad."

"The stars that have most glory have no rest."

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

"The starres, bright sentinels of the skies."

"Why, who shall talk of shrines, of sceptres riven? It is too sad to think on what we are, When from its height afar A world sinks thus; and yon majestic Heaven Shines not the less for that one vanish'd star!"

"The starres of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers cleare without number."

"Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores."

"The dawn is lonely for the sun, And chill and drear; The one lone star is pale and wan, As one in fear."

"When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track."

"The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy."

"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"

"Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"

"When sunset flows into golden glows, And the breath of the night is new, Love finds afar eve's eager star— That is my thought of you."

"Who falls for love of God shall rise a star."

"The stars in their courses fought against Sisera."

"God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky. That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die. Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a Pearly Crown, But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street, Heaventown."

"The stars, heav'n sentry, wink and seem to die."

"Just above yon sandy bar, As the day grows fainter and dimmer, Lonely and lovely, a single star Lights the air with a dusky glimmer."

"There is no light in earth or heaven But the cold light of stars; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars."

"Stars of the summer night! Far in yon azure deeps Hide, hide your golden light! She sleeps! My lady sleeps! Sleeps."

"A wise man, Watching the stars pass across the sky, Remarked: In the upper air the fireflies move more slowly."

"Wide are the meadows of night And daisies are shining there, Tossing their lovely dews, Lustrous and fair; And through these sweet fields go, Wanderers amid the stars— Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars."

"Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east."

"Stars are the Daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky, Beheld by all, and everywhere, Bright prototypes on high."

"The quenchless stars, so eloquently bright, Untroubled sentries of the shadow'y night."

"But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds."

"The stars stand sentinel by night."

"And the day star arise in your hearts."

"Would that I were the heaven, that I might be All full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee."

"Starry Crowns of Heaven Set in azure night! Linger yet a little Ere you hide your light:— Nay; let Starlight fade away, Heralding the day!"

"No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been."

"One naked star has waded through The purple shallows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light."

"Thus some who have the Stars survey'd Are ignorantly led To think those glorious Lamps were made To light Tom Fool to bed."

"Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered."

"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.— There is no easy way to the stars from the earth."

"O that my spirit were yon heaven of night, Which gazes on thee with its thousand eyes."

"He that strives to touch a star, Oft stumbles at a straw."

"Clamorem ad sidera mittunt."

"As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, A sanguine comet gleams through dusky air."

"Each separate star Seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars Break up the Night, and make it beautiful."

"The stars shall be rent into threds of light, And scatter'd like the beards of comets."

"She saw the snowy poles and moons of Mars, That marvellous field of drifted light In mid Orion, and the married stars—"

"But He is risen, a later star of dawn."

"You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,— What are you when the moon shall rise?"

"Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell,"

"How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return?"

"Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day.Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time."

"So Hector spake; and Trojans roar’d applause; Then loosed their sweating horses from the yoke, And each beside his chariot bound his own; And oxen from the city, and goodly sheep In haste they drove, and honey-hearted wine And bread from out the houses brought, and heap’d Their firewood, and the winds from off the plain Roll’d the rich vapor far into the heaven. And these all night upon the bridge of war Sat glorying; many a fire before them blazed: As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart: So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed before the towers of Troy, A thousand on the plain; and close by each Sat fifty in the blaze of burning fire; And eating hoary grain and pulse the steeds, Fixt by their cars, waited the golden dawn."