“Thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star.”

The Mistress of Vision (1913).

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British poet 1859–1907

John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act I, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken, and canst perceive that they were but dreams that troubled thee, as one newly awakened out of another kind of sleep look upon these worldly things with the same mind as thou didst upon those, that thou sawest in thy sleep.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VI, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

“What is God? The telescope by which we hold converse with the stars, the microscope which unveils the secrets of nature, the crucible of the chemist, the knife of the anatomist, the reflective faculties of the philosopher, all the common instruments of science, avail not here. On the threshold of that impenetrable mystery, a voice arrests our steps. From out the clouds and darkness that are round about God's throne, the question comes, "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?"”

Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873) British divine

Source: The Gospel in Ezekiel Illustrated in a Series of Discourses (1856), PP. 63-64 (Man Suffering).

“Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north-wind’s breath,
And stars to set; but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!”

Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet

The Hour of Death (1824).

“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Quoted in the chapter on Bowie http://books.google.com/books?id=iHXT8olyMAsC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=instant+star in Valentines & Vitriol (1978) by Rex Reed <br class="br">Variant: I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

“Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
Thou idol of the human race,
Thou tyrant of the human heart,
The flower of lovely youth that art.”

Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer

Eros http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2933.html, st. 1 (1899). <br class="br">Poetry

“The frost makes a flower,
the dew makes a star.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“Listen, if stars are still lit it means
there is someone who needs them,
It means someone wants to love.
Without sacredness in the emptiness
of this world of ours,
the heart of man fades like a flower,
no star is ever lost,
the long rains will continue to fall.”

Alexis Karpouzos book BEYOND THE HEAVEN

“As I came through the desert thus it was,
As I came through the desert: All was black,
In heaven no single star, on earth no track;
A brooding hush without a stir or note;
The air so thick it clotted in my throat.”

James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882) Scottish writer (1834-1882)

Part VI
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)

“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

“Thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star.”

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