"Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn."

"The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray, Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day."

"Non alias cælo ceciderunt plura sereno."

"Green calm below, blue quietness above."

"The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witching of the soft blue sky!"

"Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world."

"Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si cœlum ruat?"

"This majestical roof fretted with golden fire."

"Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine."

"Why Is the sky?"

"The planets in their station list'ning stood."

"When children from other countries are telling us that we've made them fear the sky, it might be time to ask some hard questions."

"When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red."

"And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help—for it As impotently moves as you or I."

"How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!"

"Bolt from the blue."

"From hyperborean skies, Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise."

"The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary."

"And over all the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars."

"And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in Heaven."

"I have no need for the boundless sky; the moon and stars are beyond my grasp. I prefer to exist in the real world, for dreams alone cannot sustain me."

""Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky."

"So whoever God wants to guide - He expands his breast to [contain] Islam; and whoever He wants to misguide - He makes his breast tight and constricted as though he were climbing into the sky. Thus does God place defilement upon those who do not believe."

"Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims."

"A sky full of silent suns."

"When the sun is overthrown, and when the stars fall, and when the hills are moved, and when the camels big with young are abandoned, and when the wild beasts are herded together, and when the seas rise, and when souls are reunited, and when the girl-child that was buried alive is asked: For what sin she was slain, and when the pages are laid open, and when the sky is torn away, and when hell is lighted, and when the Garden is brought nigh, (then) every soul will know what it hath made ready."

"Look up to the sky You'll never find rainbows If you're looking down."

"The sky is low, the clouds are mean"

"I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher."

"The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,— And that's the skies!"

"I have known the immensity of the sky high above the roses"

"I talk to God, but the sky is empty."

"Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky."

"From the sky one cannot touch the heart of the stone petrified with a desire to live after living a life of softness for long, one cannot get to touch the tenderness of a flower smiling despite being battered in turn by heat and frost."

"Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity."

"The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie."

"Hinc lucem et pocula sacra."

"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."

"The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp."

"Do not complain and cry and pray, but open your eyes and see, for the light is all about you, and it is so wonderful, so beautiful, so far beyond anything of which men have ever dreamt, for which they have ever prayed, and it is for ever and for ever."

"Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven."

"I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out."

"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven."

"Light was once the sight of God. As the gaze of spanned space... In the night sky, planets and stars once played host to gods and angels, who in turn passed their gift of light to man..."

"With the passing of the Cathars and of Grosseteste, the religious tradition of angelic light faded. Over time, science pruned away the trappings of spirit to fashion a material and mathematical imagination of light. In doing so, it similarly reshaped its image of man and cosmos."

"The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?"

"Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes."

"Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead."

"For I light my candle from their torches."

"Now that the sun is gleaming bright, Implore we, bending low, That He, the Uncreated Light, May guide us as we go."