Quotes About Skies

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!How silently, and with how wan a face!

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence ("Roundness")

Here are the skies, the planets seven, And all the starry train: Content you with the mimic heaven, And on the earth remain. (Additional Poems, V)

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.

Not wooing, no longer shall wooing, voice that has outgrown it be the nature of your cry; but instead, you would cry out as purely as a bird when the quickly ascending season lifts him up, nearly forgetting that he is a suffering creature and not just a single heart being flung into brightness, into the intimate skies.

From infinite longings finite deeds rise As fountains spring toward far-off glowing skies, But rushing swiftly upward weakly bend And trembling from their lack of power descend- So through the falling torrent of our fears Our joyous force leaps like these dancing tears. - Symbols

The leaves are falling, falling as from far, As if far gardens in the skies were dying; They fall, and never seem to be denying. And in the night the earth, a heavy ball, Into a starless solitude must fall. We all are falling. My own hand no less Than all things else; behold, it is in all. Yet there is One who, utter gentleness, Holds all this falling in His hands to bless.

And in his eyes The cold stars lighting, very old and bleak, In different skies.

What he saw seemed natural enough, and despite his sudden indifference to the world, it gave him a small squeeze of comfort that saddened him a little. Saddened that he'd never have a chance to live a full and meaningful life under the skies above.

Uglier things have been spotted in the skies, but not by reliable witnesses.

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

Living offworld seems to trigger some stubborn aspect of our capacity for superstition; it's like we need our monsters and our hero saviors a lot more when we're under alien skies.

The novelist Natsume Soseki counted his morning trips to the toilet a great pleasure, 'a physiological delight' he called it. And surely there could be no better place to savor this pleasure than a Japanese toilet where, surrounded by tranquil walls and finely grained wood, one looks out upon blue skies and green leaves.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.