Stars

"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."

"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."

"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?"

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Like the lost pleiad seen no more below."

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

"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"

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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"