Stars quotes
Beard Charles A. 1874-1948
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Keats John 1795-1821
‘Hyperyon: A Fragment'
And still they were the same bright, patient stars.
Keats John 1795-1821
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.
Langbridge Frederick 1849-1923
Cluster of Quiet Thoughts
Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Lear Edward 1812-1888
‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat.
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the Stars above
And sang to a small guitar,
‘Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are.'
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
Evangeline, ‘Prelude'
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593
Doctor Faustus
O lente lente currite noctis equi.
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.
O I'll leap up to my God: who pulls me down?
See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament.
One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah my Christ.
Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593
Doctor Faustus
You stars that reigned at my nativity,
Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,
Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist ...
Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593
Doctor Faustus
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Marvell Andrew 1621-1678
‘The Definition of Love'
As lines (so loves) ablique may well
Themselves in every angle greet:
But ours so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.
Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.
Meredith George 1828-1909
Modern Love
Not till the fire is dying in the grate,
Look we for any kinship with the stars.
Middleton Thomas c.1580-1627
The Changeling
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, ‘mongst things corruptible.
Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
At whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminished heads.
Mottoes and Slogans
(motto, the RAF)
Per ardua ad astra.
Through struggle to the stars.
Parish Mitchell
‘Deep Purple'
When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls,
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky,
Thru' the mist of a memory you wander back to me,
Breathing my name with a sigh.
Plunkett Joseph 1887-1916
I see His Blood
I see His blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of His eyes.
Porter Cole 1891-1964
‘Well, Did You Evah?
Have you heard it's in the stars,
Next July we collide with Mars?
Well, did your evah! What a swell party this is.
Rossetti Dante Gabriel 1828-1882
„The Blessed Damozel"
The blessed damozel leaned out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters stilled at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.
Sackville-West Vita 1892-1962
The King's Daughter
The greater cats with golden eyes
Stare out between the bars.
Deserts are there, and different skies,
And night with different stars.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Julius Caesar
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Spenser Edmund c.1552-1599
The Shepherd's Calendar ‘July'
And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw.
Taylor Bayard 1825-1878
‘Bedouin Song'
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgement Book unfold.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
Idylls of the king ‘The Passing of Arthur'
I found Him in the shining of the stars,
I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,
But in His ways with men I find Him not.
Thomas Edward 1878-1917
„The Trumpet"
Open your eyes to the air
That has washed the eyes of the stars
Through all the dewy night:
Up with the light,
To the old wards:
Arise, arise.
Vaughan Bill
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at
the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Vaughan Henry 1622-1695
Silex Scintillans ‘Peace'
My soul, there is a country
Far beyond the stars,
Where stands a wingèd sentry
All skilful in the wars;
There, above noise and danger,
Sweet Peace is crowned with smiles,
And One born in a manger
Commands the beauteous files.
Virgil 70-19 BC
Aeneid
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.
Webster John c.1580-c.1625
The Duchess of Malfi
We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and bandied
Which way please them.
Whitman Walt 1819-1892
‘Song of Myself'
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
Lady Windermere's Fan
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.