“You are all just perfect little satellites
Spinning round and round this broken Earthy life”
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Satellite Call"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)
“A poem round and perfect as a star.”
Scene 2.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)
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Scottish poet and essayist 1829–1867Related quotes
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“All in the waning light she stood,
The star of perfect womanhood.”
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Three Sunsets (1861), st. 1
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
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Context: For those denounced by their smug, horrible children
For a peppermint-star and the praise of the Perfect State,
For all those strangled, gelded or merely starved
To make perfect states; for the priest hanged in his cassock,
The Jew with his chest crushed in and his eyes dying,
The revolutionist lynched by the private guards
To make perfect states, in the names of the perfect states.
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath