STAR QUOTES
quotations about stars
There is a little kind of star that drowns itself by hundreds in the river Thames--the many-rayed silver-white seed that makes journeys on all the winds up and down England and across it in the end of summer. It is a most expert traveller, turning a little wheel a-tiptoe wherever the wind lets it rest, and speeding on those pretty points when it is not flying. The streets of London are among its many highways, for it is fragile enough to go far in all sorts of weather. But it gets disabled if a rough gust tumbles it on the water so that its finely-feathered feet are wet. On gentle breezes it is able to cross dry-shod, walking the waters.
ALICE MEYNELL
"The Tethered Constellation", Ceres' Runaway & Other Essays
The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Evangeline
Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise?
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
"A Summer Evening's Meditation"
Moon and stars, the draping light
Of the love-wreathed couch of night.
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"Diana"
PUMBAA: Hey, Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
TIMON: Pumbaa, I don't wonder; I know.
PUMBAA: Oh. What are they?
TIMON: They're fireflies. Fireflies that, uh... got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing.
PUMBAA: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
TIMON: Pumbaa, with you, everything's gas.
LINDA WOOLVERTON, IRENE MECCHI & JONATHAN ROBERTS
The Lion King
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
SARAH WILLIAMS
Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.
CHARLES SIMIC
"autumn sky", The Voice at 3:00 A.M.
Underground, the stars are legend.
CATHERINE FISHER
Incarceron
All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
ALAN MOORE
Watchman
To our eyes the stars seem small; but the littleness is not the fault of the stars, but of our eyes.
AL-MAARRI
attributed, Day's Collacon
What are ye orbs?
The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
I can feel the dark, take the night
Apart, but then, the stars come out
And lift my heart
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
"Star"
When you reach for a star
Only angels are there
And it's not very far
Just a step on a stair ...
KATE BUSH
"The Magician", The Magician of Lublin
Tonight the swinging stars shall plumb
The silence of the sky.
STELLA BENSON
Twenty
One of the most poetic facts I know about the universe is that essentially every atom in your body was once inside a star that exploded. Moreover, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than did those in your right hand. We are all, literally, star children, and our bodies made of stardust.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
A Universe from Nothing
There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.
ROGER ZELAZNY
Creatures of Light and Darkness
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Lord of the Rings
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect light.
JOHN HENRY HOPKINS
"We Three Kings"
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Stranger