Stars

"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."