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Epic poem2 quotes
Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667Narrative poem2 quotes
Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Philosophical literature2 quotes
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Socrates · 375 BCTwo things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant · 1788Religious literature2 quotes
Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667Autobiography and memoir1 quote
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes. — George Orwell · 1933Political literature1 quote
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962War1 quote
I love this place at night. The stars...there's no right or wrong in them, they're just there. — Sgt. Elias · 1986War (film)1 quote
I love this place at night. The stars...there's no right or wrong in them, they're just there. — Sgt. Elias · 1986