“Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.”

“England struck me as a very miserable place, dark and drab, without the bright skies of India.”

“The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.”

“Toward the bright stars, from the dark ground, he hurled another petition, for whatever it was worth.”

“Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.”

“The constellated sounds
ran sprinkling on earth’s floor
As the dark vault above
with stars was spangled o’er.”

“How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, we're only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe.”

“The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the dark
And we may lose everything in the wind
But the Northern Lights are burning
And they're giving off sparks.”

“A light is gone from yonder sky,
A star has left its sphere;
The beautiful--and do they die
In yon bright world as here?
Will that star leave a lonely place,
A darkness on the night?—
No; few will miss its lovely face,
And none think heaven less bright!”

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”