Evening Skies

The days do get shorter now yet there is that bliss which comes with the sight of the sun setting. There is something calm within the skies. Where it's that temperance sight just before the sun goes down.


May you have
warm words on a
cold evening,
A full moon on a
dark night,
And the road
downhill all
the way to
your door.


- Mary Engelbreit


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Put three grains of sand
inside a vast cathedral, and
the cathedral will be more
closely packed with sand
than space is with stars.


- Sir James Jeans, English Astronomer


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Keen as are the arrows
Of that silver sphere
Whose intense lamp narrows
In the white dawn clear,
Until we hardly see,
we feel that it is there.


- To a Skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Stars are like animals in
the wild. We may see the
young but never the actual
birth, which is a veiled
and secret event.


- Heinz R. Pagels, American Physicist


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Behold, directly overhead, a
certain strange star was
suddenly seen . . . Amazed,
and as if astonished and
stupified, I stood still.


- Tycho Brahe, Danish Astronomer


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. . . the perceptible Universe
exists as a cluster of clusters,
irregularly disposed.


- Eureka, Edgar Allan Poe, American Writer


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. . . Torrent of light and
river of the air, Along whose
bed the glimmering star are
seen, Like gold and silver
sands in some ravine . . .


- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet


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The Universe is an infinite
sphere, the centre of which is
everywhere, the circumference
nowhere.


- Pensées, Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and natural philosopher


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Andromeda! Sweet woman!
why delaying, So timidly
among the stars: come hither!
Join this bright throng, and
nimbly follow whither
They all are going.


- Endymion, John Keats, English Poet


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On Saturday night I lost my wife,
And where do you think I found her?
Up in the moon, singing a tune,
And all the stars around her.


- Mother Goose nursery rhyme


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Many a night I saw the
Pleiades, rising thro' the
mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies
tangled in a silver braid.


- Locksley Hall, Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

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Marduk, bade the moon come
forth; entrusted night to her,
made her creature of the dark,
to measure time; and every
month, unfailingly, adorned
her with a crown.


- Translated from Enuma Elish, seventh century BC tablets upon which
Assyro-Babylonian legends concerning the creation of the world are recorded.


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Everyone is a moon and has
a dark side which he never
shows to anybody.


- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Mark Twain, American Writer