"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"A grisly meteor on his face."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"These blessed candles of the night."

"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."

"The stars above us govern our conditions."

"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."

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

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

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