Astronomy Quote by Mary Butts

“To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement…

— Frank Herbert

“It was one of those warm, still, almost tropical nights, so rarely seen on the northern waters, when a profound calm reigns in the…

— George Kennan

“In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected…

— Joseph Conrad

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from…

— Charles Dickens

“The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as it splashed the river-walls of the Island of…

— Charles Dickens

“So near the track of the stars are we, That oft, on night's pale beams, The distant sounds of their harmony Come to our…

— Thomas Bulfinch

Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

— Walt Whitman

“I saw the first light, fore-running the sun, gather in a cup of the eastern cloud, gather and grow and brim, till at last…

— Mary Stewart

“There will be stars over the place forever; Though the house we loved and the street we loved are lost, Every time the earth…

— Sara Teasdale

“Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out…

— Dan Brown

“To-night, as ages hence, people would say this, or shut their doors on them, turn in bereaved agony from them, or toward them with…

— Malcolm Lowry

“What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths…

— E. Nesbit