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Quotes About Celestial

I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!"
~ Unknown
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.
~ Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
~ Lord Byron
The moon is up, and yet it is not night, The sun as yet divides the day with her.
~ Lord Byron
He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever
~ Jodi Picoult
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars
~ Unknown
The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
~ Voltaire
It is not known precisely where angels dwell — whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
~ Voltaire
I carry the sun in a golden cup. The moon in a silver bag.
~ W. B. Yeats
The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
~ W.B. Yeats
The stars are threshed, and the soub are threshed from their husks.' WILLIAM BLAKE
~ W.B. Yeats
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.
~ W.H. Auden
from what we cannot hold the stars are made
~ W.S. Merwin
The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.
~ Dave Matthews
When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
~ William Shakespeare
Elen síla lúmenn' omentielmo ("A star shines on the hour of our meeting").
~ Philip Zaleski
No star remained now to navigate by.
~ Rachel Kadish
She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-form, and melt away again, over and over, as if some celestial power had ordered the end of the world but kept having second thoughts.
~ Dean Koontz
thought of the Roman deity Diana, goddess of the moon
~ Dean Koontz
It was the first breath of the new moon, but the whole of it was visible, a perfect ball of violet and indigo cupped in a sickle of light, luminous among the stars.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'
~ Richard Dawkins
By analogy, the "Records" reside in what we today might call, in computer lingo, a "zipped file" – which may be opened up and reanimated by "mystics," like a celestial television set.
~ Unknown
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
~ Isaac Newton