“Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.”
Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828) American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
A Serenade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.”
Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828) American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
A Serenade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The love where Death has set his seal,
Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,
Nor falsehood disavow.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-thou38.html (1812).
“The Cross on Golgotha
Thou lookest to in vain,
Unless within thine heart
It be set up again”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
Edwin Abbott Abbott book Flatland
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART I: THIS WORLD, Chapter 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
"The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99
Gemma Galgani (1878–1903) ITALIANA
Quoted in The Life of St. Gemma Galgani by her spiritual director Ven. Germanus, trans. A. M. O'Sullivan, 1999, p. 258.
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
“Look, then, into thine heart, and write!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Voices of the Night http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/Chap1.html, Prelude, st. 19 (1839).
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
"The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99
Context: Descend, descend, Urania, speak
To men in their own tongue!
Leave not the breaking heart to break
Because thine own is strong.
This is the law, in dream and deed,
That heaven must walk on earth!
O, shine upon the humble creed
That holds the heavenly birth.
“Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)