“I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XI, Romance, st. 1.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.”
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Chilean poet 1904–1973Related quotes
“Pecking order in birds or other animals.”
James Grier Miller (1916–2002) biologist
Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969)
Frank Loesser (1910–1969) American songwriter
Song A Bushel and a Peck.
“You are like a star in my night
I'm gonna make it alright
Yes I am”
Jack Vidgen (1997) Australian singer
Song Yes I Am, released August 3, 2011
“The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Die Nacht ist meine beste Freundin. Sie glättet den Sturm in der Seele und lässt die weisenden Sterne aufgehen.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Variant: When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
