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Quotes About Sky

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.
~ W.H. Auden
Liberty to be and weep has never been sufficient: The winds surround our griefs, the unfenced sky To all our failures is a taciturn unsmiling witness.
~ W.H. Auden
I mean to rule the earth, As he the sky — We really know our worth, The sun and I
~ Unknown
How It Happens" The sky said I am watching to see what you can make out of nothing I was looking up and I said I thought you were supposed to be doing that the sky said Many are clinging to that I am giving you a chance I was looking up and I said I am the only chance I have then the sky did not answer and here we are with our names for the days the vast days that do not listen to us
~ W.S. Merwin
for a time beyond measure there were no rooms and now many have forgotten the sky
~ W.S. Merwin
To The Hand" What the eye sees is a dream of sight what it wakes to is a dream of sight and in the dream for every real lock there is only one real key and it's in some other dream now invisible it's the key to the one real door it opens the water and the sky both at once it's already in the downward river with my hand on it my real hand and I am saying to the hand turn open the river
~ W.S. Merwin
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Dad, I left my heart up there.
~ Francis Gary Powers
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
~ Dogen
Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.
~ C.C. Hunter, Taken at Dusk
There is nothing but the gleam of mysterious light—not dawn and yet not starlight—where the unlit earth meets the night-black sky, and the only sound is the haunting call of the owls.
~ Philippa Gregory
Funny sky,' he said, squinting up at the thick-bellied white clouds and the sun shining so hot on them but not breaking through. 'It feels as if there should be a storm,' I said 'but it was like this at haymaking and the weather never properly broke then.' 'If I was at sea I should run for a port,' Ralph said. He was looking towards the horizon where there was a yellow tinge to the sky over the top of the downs.
~ Philippa Gregory
ADIEU The glimmer farther away than the head The heart-skip On the slope where the air rolls its voice The spokes of the wheel the sun in the rut At the crossroads near the embankment a prayer Some words that are not heard Nearer the sky And on its steps the last square of light (Adieu)
~ Pierre Reverdy
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
~ Publius Ovidius Naso
Asa, ca norii de pe cer, Gandurile ne preschimba chipul suav Pe care, astazi, iubindu-l, Poti maine sa-l urasti.
~ Unknown
David was holding Mona steady. I hoped he also had a little attention to spare to keep us unnoticed from the ground; seeing a Dodge Viper do a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the desert sky might be a little hard to explain, even for UFO nuts.
~ Rachel Caine
The thing I've found about exciting is that it's like fireworks. A big burst of color. It takes your breath away, and then nothing. But something that's always there, while it might not be as exciting, like the stars in the sky, they can still steal your breath.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, but the storm occluded the sky, denying us the stars. At the moment, I needed to see a firmament of stars, needed to gaze past the moon and through the constellations, needed to see what can't be seen--infinity.
~ Dean Koontz
Siempre resplandece el cielo antes del anochecer.
~ Dean Koontz
She watched a serrated formation of brown pelicans slice the sky and leave no scar.
~ Dean Koontz
she drove slowly into town as the gold and rose fingers of the dawn reached toward fading stars that eluded them.
~ Dean Koontz
The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen in the ice-pale glow of the moon. Something
~ Dean Koontz
Sometimes, out in the night, on the dark beach, when the sky is clear and the vault of stars makes me feel simultaneously mortal and invincible, when the wind is still and even the sea is hushed as it breaks upon the shore
~ Dean Koontz
a sorrowing sky, the days and nights washed by the grief of angels...
~ Dean Koontz