Astronomy Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

“A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”

— Walt Whitman

It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which…

— Terry Pratchett

The window is wide On a crawling arch of stars, and the night Reacts faintly to the mathematic Passion of a cello suite Plotting…

— Thomas Kinsella

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade,…

— Nathalia Crane

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

— Oliver Goldsmith

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

— Carl Sandburg

Sunset is the opening music of the night.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

— China Mieville

“The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. Music”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.”

— Fernand Dumont