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Quotes About Starry

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.
~ Pierre-Jean de Beranger
Beneath the sky, wretched lonliness was no jot better or worse than good fortune and success. To put it another way, wherever you stood, the same starry sky was peering down.
~ Yukio Mishima
Paris, pareil à un pan de ciel étoilé tombé sur un coin de la terre noire, lui apparut sévère et comme fâché de son retour.
~ Émile Zola
Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations.
~ Robert Brault
I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
~ Immanuel Kant
I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.
~ Derek Walcott
Starlight, star bright, the first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish not to cry.
~ Jenny Han
Under the wide and starry sky,Dig the grave and let me lie.Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he longed to be;Home is the sailor, home from sea,And the hunter home from the hill.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
That tang of dogshit in darkness. That's your starry crown.
~ Anne Carson
O starry night, This is how I want to die
~ Anne Sexton
she knew, the sky was speckled with stars. How could anyone number them one by one, as the psalm said? There were too many. The sky was too big.
~ Lois Lowry
There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.
~ Van Morrison
Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
~ Allen Ginsberg
Summer meant the garden. It meant roses, hollyhocks, larkspur, geraniums. It meant birds. It meant long days and starry nights.
~ Luanne Rice
Ptolemy said, "Mortal though I be, yea, ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at night's starry domain of heaven, then no longer on earth I stand: I touch the Creator and my lively spirit drinketh immortality.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Behind me lie the fields and brakes, All dark beneath the starry pole, And now with holy dread there wakes The pure awareness of the soul.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She wondered whether her head were so big as to be able to contain all this starry universe, or whether the universe were so little that it would fit within the compass of her human head.
~ John Crowley
Yo fui un soldado que durmió en el lecho de Cleopatra la reina. Su blancura y su mirada astral y omnipotente. Eso fue todo. I was a soldier who slept in the bed of Cleopatra, the Queen. Her paleness, her starry and omnipotent gaze. Nothing more.
~ Ruben Dario
I listened to her with my head in my arms and looked out the window at the whirling starry sky. The Greeks had used those same stars to conquer the world. We were like them - gods and heroes.
~ Elisabeth Thomas
I have seen starry archipelagoes! and islandsWhose raving skies are opened to the voyager:Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep, in exile,A million golden birds, O future Vigor?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I viddied this sloppy glass of beer I had on the table in front of me and felt like all vomity within, so I went 'Aaaaah' and poured all the frothy vonny cal all over the floor. One of the starry ptitsas said: 'Waste not want not.' I said:
~ Anthony Burgess
The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it's full of stars!
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The wakeful nightingale,She all night long her amorous descant sung;Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmamentWith living sapphires: Hesperus, that ledThe starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,Rising in clouded majesty, at lengthApparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
~ John Milton