Astronomy Quote by T. S. Eliot

“O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. O Greater Light, we praise Thee for the less; The eastern light our…

— T.S. Eliot

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.

— Charles Wesley

Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light…

— John Sterling

“Eight o'clock, no later, You light the lamps, The big one by the large window, The small one on your desk, They are not…

— Mary Oliver Rotman

“On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream we took our meadowy way, A poet wise has settled, whose fine ray…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Above the decorous walking around me, sounds of footsteps leaving the verandas of far-flung buildings and moving toward the walks and over the walks…

— Ralph Ellison

“To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can…

— Paul Kalanithi

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

— Denise Levertov

Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will…

— Conrad Aiken

The sacred influence of light appears.

— John Milton

I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see…

— Emily Dickinson