quotations about stars
Small stars are like small dogs -- they tend to be very energetic.
SETH SHOSTAK
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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.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied
Which way please them.
JOHN WEBSTER
The Duchess of Malfi
A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
"Byzantium", The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.
ROGER ZELAZNY
Isle of the Dead
Day's weary toil is o'er;
No worldly strife my heartfelt worship mars:
Beneath the mystery of the silent stars,
I tremble and adore.
ALBERT LAIGHTON
"The Midnight Voice"
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Ode: The Spacious Firmament on High
The stars that roll in glory far above us, and that have stood out so long upon the firmament, like figures on the dial of eternity, shall fade and disappear. But we, who tremble at their greatness and thirst for their secrets, shall pass and live beyond them. Time has no mortgage on the human soul.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Every mortal, at his birth, has a particular star, that presideth over his life and destiny.
MANETHO
attributed, Day's Collacon