“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
-- Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 25 May 1843 entry
“I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky.”
-- Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
“To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine! ... It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.”
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond
“Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.”
-- René Daumal
“The sun is but a morning star.”
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
“Silently, one by one,
in the infinite meadows of the heaven,
blossumed the lovely stars,
the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, 1847
“When stars are in the quiet skies,
Then most I pine for thee;
Bend on me then thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.”
-- Edward Bulwer Lytton, When Stars are in the quiet Skies
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random among the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison, we can fashion images of ourselves, sufficiently powerful, to deny our nothingness!”
-- Andre Malraux
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