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Sky Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
- In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But…
- As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming…
- The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
- All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of…
More Sky Quotes
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- Music fathoms the sky. — Charles Baudelaire
- More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton
- Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. — Augustine Birrell
- Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a… — Lewis Black
- This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. — James Agee
- Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. — Arna Bontemps
- You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be… — Bertolt Brecht
- When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is… — Gwendolyn Brooks