"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."

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

"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."

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

"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 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."

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

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

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

"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"

"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"

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

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Like the lost pleiad seen no more below."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Surely the stars are images of love."

"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."

"The stars in their courses fought against Sisera."

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

"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."

"Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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!"

"If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible."

"Over the rim of waiting earth the moon lifted with majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings..."

"Space is big. Really big. You won't believe how hugely mindbogglingly big it really is."

"Astrology is a science as infallible as astronomy itself, with the condition, however, that its interpreters must be equally infallible; and it is this condition, sine qua non, so very difficult of realization, that has always proved a stumbling block to both."

"Astrology is to exact astronomy what psychology is to exact physiology. In astrology and psychology one has to step beyond the visible world of matter, and enter into the domain of transcendent spirit. It is the old struggle between the Platonic and Aristotelean schools, and it is not in our century of Sadducean skepticism that the former will prevail over the latter."

"For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God."

"What to do during the confinement? Become a crater hunter!"

"It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team."

"In that photo ("Pale Blue Dot"), the inner meaning of four centuries of astronomical research is suddenly available to all of us at a glance."

"Although Uranus and Neptune are superficially twin planets, they are different enough to remind us - as do Venus and Earth - that we still have a lot to learn about the mix of natural laws and historical accidents that formed the planets and fashioned their destinies."

"L’astronomie est fille de l’oisiveté, la géométrie est fille de l’intérêt"