Astronomy Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

— Thomas Love Peacock

“But there, set as in the crater of a mountain of sand, and inaccessible to mortal footstep, stands unperishing the glory of the earth.…

— Bernard Capes

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth…

— Charles Kingsley

“Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light: Such comfort as do lusty young men feel When well-apparell'd April on the heel Of limping winter…

— William Shakespeare

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

— Sappho

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…

— Lord Byron

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“What's the light of Heaven look like on earth? Like sunlight streaming through clouds in the tackiest garage sale painting you ever saw. Really,…

— Tad Williams

(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth…

— Dante Alighieri

“The moon is shining brighter tonight, touching the entire village with its soft silver light; the houses are half awake and the sky is…

— Rita Teixeira

“The gleaming stars all about the shining moon Hide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendid In the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed…

— Sappho