“Silver The liquid ebony stretches out and mingles with the midnight sky where high above, as on a throne, is perched that… — Rebecca Harris Copy Share Image
O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver--over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“To look at a star by glances—to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Last night, I saw a falling star. I make a wish, I said... I wish you'll be mine. The star suddenly stop,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the year of chan yan..., Jupiter was in [the Zodiacal Division of] Zi, it rose in the morning and went under… — Gan De Copy Share Image
From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas Copy Share Image
I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.… — Huineng Copy Share Image
Could you help me catch the moon?” “I might be able to give you some advice,” the old man said reluctantly. “But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the afternoon sky a white moon would creep up like a little cloud, furtive, without display, suggesting an actress who… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the… — Sara Seager Copy Share Image
“We came out on Coldra Crescent, one of those warm air nights, stars spitting in the sky like firebugs stuck on a… — Ron Berry Copy Share Image
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“By that hidden way My guide and I did enter, to return To the fair world: and heedless of repose We climbed,… — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
“It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on… — Jennifer Croft Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Obviously, when conditions are sunny and benign, any wimpy wantwit can relax and be cheerful. It’s when her house is burning down… — Mara Altman Copy Share Image
“Despite the enormous evening sky spreading over most of the canvas, its moon no more than a tarnished coin, dull and flat,… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device,… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
We live in a country that sent people to the moon. This accomplishment, along with other bold leaps of faith, required political… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“The next morning dawned cool and clear. The early mist had lifted, leaving a thick layer of dew clinging to the hillsides… — Monica McCarty Copy Share Image
Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“The moon drew me towards it the same way it dragged the heavy oceans. I loved its fragility. Its delicate luminosity. The… — Magda Szubanski Copy Share Image
“Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew… — Matthew McBride Copy Share Image
“Ten more minutes of walking, he guessed, and the bridge seemed to be no nearer. He was too cold to shiver. His… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the sky was a sliver of moon. What kind of moon? A moon like a clipped fingernail, like a smudge of… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image