“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.”
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. II
In his interview with Nina Myskow for Saga magazine, July 2007
“By the way, _____ was a name I used to dance under.”
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“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.
“She was our queen, our rose, our star;
And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!”
"The Belle of the Ball" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 139.