“Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!”
"The Star," from Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804).
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British poet 1783–1824Related quotes
“Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle. ”
“Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.”
Stanza 2.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)
Diamonds, Unapologetic (2012). Cowritten with Benjamin Levin, Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Hermansen.
Songs
“There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.”
Canto III, line 957
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“You know, you can shout all night long at the stars to stop twinkling — but they won't!”
"A Note on Integrity" (17 July 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blyC329I3F0
Context: No one can tell the mountain what it's missing, or that it's lacking, or that it's something that it's not.... You know, you can shout all night long at the stars to stop twinkling — but they won't!... And it's quite a compliment, really, that you can be what you are, and that you can do the right thing, regardless of how popular it is, or if you have anyone helping you — or if you don't get anything for it.... All those people out there, looking up at you, screaming "stop twinkling!" — they have no power, at all. And what else could you do, being a star?
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 15
“I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
Throughout my being's limitless expanse”
As quoted in Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2
Context: I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
Throughout my being's limitless expanse,
Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages
I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
You Are My Life
Invincible (2001)