Astounded Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. --from "Crossing the Water",…

— Sylvia Plath

“Before the Battle: Music of whispering trees Hushed by the broad-winged breeze Where shaken water gleams; And evening radiance falling With reedy bird-notes calling.…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“In the depth of my soul there are songs unwilling to take the garb of words, songs living as seed in my heart. They…

— Kahlil Gibran

As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still…

— Charles Lamb

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries…

— Anna Akhmatova

'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen-…

— John Keats

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

— Alfred Austin

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

— Ishmael Beah

“I am in the night of the stars. The moon is new and I see my way by focusing on the light given off…

— H Raven Rose

0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

— Phillips Brooks

“Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; I look far out into the pregnant night, Where I can hear a solemn…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar