
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: We take all the telescopes
And we turn them inside out
And we point them away from the big sky.
Put your eye right up to the glass.
Here we'll find the constellation of the heart.
Steer your life by these stars
On the unconditional chance
'Tis here where Hell and Heaven dance.
This is the constellation of the heart.
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IX, Chapter I, Sec. 2
Song lyrics, Children of the Sun (1969)
“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.