Quotations About / On: SKY

  • 41.
    a bolder note than this might swell
    From my lyre within the sky.
    (Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Israfel (l. 50-51). . . Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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  • 42.
    Snow,
    blessed snow,
    comes out of the sky
    like bleached flies.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Snow.")
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  • 43.
    The sky it seems would pour down stinking pitch,
    But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
    Dashes the fire out.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Miranda, in The Tempest, act 1, sc. 2, l. 3-5. Describing the storm she has seen; "welkin's cheek" means the clouds in the sky.)
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  • 44.
    The gossiping of friendly spheres,
    The creaking of the tented sky,
    The ticking of Eternity.
    (Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Renascence (l. 58-60). . ; pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]. Norma Millay, ed. (1956) Harper and Row.)
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  • 45.
    The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
    (Georg Büchner (1813-1837), German dramatist, revolutionary. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Danton's Death, act IV (1835).)
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  • 46.
    Sometimes outside beneath a bombers' moon
    You stood alone to watch the searchlights trace
    Their careful webs against the boding sky,
    (Edgar Bowers (b. 1924), U.S. poet. The Stoic: for Laura von Courten (l. 3-5). . . Contemporary American Poets, The; American Poetry since 1940. Mary Strand, ed. (1969) World Publishing Company.)
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  • 47.
    Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Plato; or, the Philosopher," Representative Men (1850).)
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  • 48.
    If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
    (Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Notebooks and Diaries (1854).)
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  • 49.
    Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
    (Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian politician, president. Remark during a visit to the U.S. quoted in Independent (London, Sept. 13, 1989).)
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  • 50.
    Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
    In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
    Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. The Magi (l. 1-3). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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