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A constellation of Utopians is a group which only seems a group to us because we seek familiar institutions in their government, as we use the shapes of beasts and heroes to make false sense of the sea of stars.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.
Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
Shining stars linked together through time. A constellation of murder.
Jubilation knows and Longing grants
only Lament still learns; with girlish hands
she counts the ancient evil through the nights.
But suddenly, unpracticed and askant,
she lifts one of our voice's constellations
Into the sky unclouded by her breath.
They weren't so much a constellation, the five of them, as a series of scattered stars.
...but at night when he turns the awkward [telescope] skyward, he catches his breath at the clarity of the image and the vast populations of stars unknown to him until then, the riotous glittering in the dark crevices between constellations, a convocation of bright spirits waiting to be found.
At night, she slipped into the shelter of the boy's arms as they stood together on deck, picking out constellations from the vast spill of stars: the Hunter, the Scholar, the Three Foolish Sons, the bright spokes of the Spinning Wheel, the Southern Palace with its six crooked spires.
Destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome.
I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up constellations. I made a Bear and a Goat but maybe not where they are supposed to be, I made some for the animals that once were, the ones I know about.
Ursa Major, Leo, Cepheus. Her breaths came easier and slower with each familiar constellation.
We gazed at the constellations, praising the portentous architecture of the sky with trite formulas.
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.
After a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land.
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O stars, isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight into her pure features come from the pure constellations? - from "The Third Elegy" by Rainer Maria Rilke Fine
Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.
Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.
The room seemed suddenly to clarify, as when a chance scatter of stars resolves into a constellation before the eye.
He watched them go, spreading out against the sky, like new constellations playing amongst the stars.
I marveled over the cosmic metaphors in my life. Found that all I needed to see and all I needed to know; all I needed to understand could be found in a constellation shaped like the Big Dipper.
I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.
On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars.
I love you, what star do you live on?
Sleep: the moon still hasn't moved the width of a constellation since you were a girl. Since you have become a woman, the stars that stand above the halls of Palladios have not yet disappeared behind the domes of San Marco. But only since then has the world become the world.
You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.
You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.
Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation
and the round key of the rapid universe,
come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,
come before its petals are consumed.
Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
It's impossible to own a Norin, no matter how many cages you wrap around them. We will always follow our own star. The best you can do is to hope you've pinned your heart to the same constellation.
The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.
The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.
In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns ...
So now, when the people of Earth looked up into the night sky at the place where they ought to have seen the moon, they saw instead this slowly tumbling constellation of white boulders.
The stars give light to night sky.
The sky is filled with stars.
Follow your own star!
The room smelled of old cigarsmoke. He leaned and turned off the little brass lamp and sat in the dark. Through the front window he could see the starlit prairie falling away to the north. The black crosses of the old telegraph poles yoked across the constellations passing east to west.
The starry cope Of heaven.
Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end.
In the eternal night of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, two civilization had swept through like two shooting stars, and the universe had remembered their light.
In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men (and women) of flesh and blood.
Cross that rules the Southern Sky!
Stars that sweep, and turn, and fly
Hear the Lovers' Litany: -
'Love like ours can never die!
Our satellites are reaching stars
And there are people who are still searching stars in Horoscopes
All he knew was that she shone, like a constellation in the shape of a girl.
With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?
Gemini....You revere scientists and shamans alike,
providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm."
(Rob Brezsny)
The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in existence.
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars
I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
From the stars, to the stars.
Through all people, the Music of Love would pour, bringing light to the swords that sped through the darkness. And the light of their blades would lead the constellations to their destination.
She remembered thinking falling for him would be like falling in love with darkness, but now she imagined he was more like a starry night: the constellations were always there, constant, magnificent guides against the ever-present black.
Stars to live by. Stars to steer by. Stars to die by.
Since before even the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, human beings used the stars and seasons to track time and record their most important moments. Cesium severed that link with the heavens, effaced it just as surely as urban streetlamps blot out constellations.
They call me the Morning Star. That star by which griffin-riders and travelers navigate the wastes in the dark months of winter. The last star that disappears when daylight returns in the spring.
Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.
The star rises from the east. Watch out!
Our lives are a constellation of events, strung together, glittering; the shapes only being seen from a distance.
Lyra and Caelum: the two replicas with names plucked straight from the stars.
You are unique, just by being you, in this constellation of shining stars, just continue being you, shine your light on others as you journey through this life.
Author D.L.O'ferrall
Stars don't sit still, they twinkle
The thousand stars that shine in the light of day
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?
The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
Come let us haste, the stars grow high,
But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.
Bethlehem star. But we were not
The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.
The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.
The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.
One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.
Stars have passed judgement over the most terrible of our failures and have been the proud witnesses of our grandest triumphs. They are the silent observers of our history and lives.
Above our heads, the stars flare and glitter and flash: thousands and thousands of them, so many thousands they look like snowflakes whirling away into the inky dark.
Much as I love looking at the stars, I never learned to guide by them. I mark my course by people.
The Stars Are Not Wanted but the Sky Will Submit
They send their shout to the stars.
[Lat., Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.]
In the August night and the perspective of Beacon
He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever
And yet more bright
Shines out the Julian star,
As moon outglows each lesser light.
[Lat., Micat inter omnes
Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes
Luna minores.]
Lets rattle the stars.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
You are no star, Gabby. You're the sky. The rest of us are just circling your orbit.
After all, the night sky is a mess of stars -- a million fireflies crammed into infinity. But the mess becomes a map once you know how to use it.
Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to long for.