Book Quote by Chet Raymo Download Open image “The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.” — Chet Raymo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Constellations Dark Dark night Firsts Night Poetry Quiet
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them.… — John Berger Copy Share
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make… — Rita Dove Copy Share
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation,… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein),… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Nancy According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“I am a child of the Milky Way. The night is my mother. I am made of the dust of stars. Every atom in… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
