
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
Variant: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
Variant: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.”
Source: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Source: Misattributed, P. 243. in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). This is actually a quote from The golden chain; or, The Christian graces illustrated and enforced (1855) by John Harvey
“But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.”
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
Context: He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.
“Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.”
A Serenade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars
and all roses are
as white as my pain.”