“Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye
Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.”
Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) United States poet
Arcturus (To Edgar Allan Poe).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It's all the same to me. The Yenisei swirls,
the North Star shines, as it will shine forever;
and the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes
is clouded over by the final horror.
— The House on the Fontanka, 19 August 1939”
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), To Death
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“Yet shine forever virgin minds,
Loved by stars and the purest winds”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Astræa
1840s, Poems (1847)
Context: p>Each to each a looking-glass,
Reflects his figure that doth pass.
Every wayfarer he meets
What himself declared repeats,
What himself confessed records,
Sentences him in his words;
The form is his own corporal form,
And his thought the penal worm. Yet shine forever virgin minds,
Loved by stars and the purest winds,
Which, o'er passion throned sedate,
Have not hazarded their state;
Disconcert the searching spy,
Rendering to a curious eye
The durance of a granite ledge
To those who gaze from the sea's edge.
It is there for benefit;
It is there for purging light;
There for purifying storms;
And its depths reflect all forms;
It cannot parley with the mean,—
Pure by impure is not seen.
For there's no sequestered grot,
Lone mountain tarn, or isle forgot,
But Justice, journeying in the sphere,
Daily stoops to harbour there.</p
T. E. Lawrence book Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Dedicatory poem, to "S. A.", as written in the 1922 "Oxford text"; variant : "When we came" for "When I came" in the 1926 edition, and others.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
“One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 162
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Nacht faltet zitternde Hände über der müden Welt. Aus blassem Blau steigt leuchtend der Mond. Meine Gedanken fliegen wie einsame Schwäne in die Sterne.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
Philadelphia Freedom (1975)
Song lyrics, Singles
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Context: Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
“We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun… we all shine on… come on and on and on…”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Variant: Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
Source: Song Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”
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William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. ? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)