The Building of the City Beautiful (1905), Ch. V : How Beautiful!, p. 48.
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 1
“Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.”
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XLI (p. 204)
“Why are there stars when there are no people? O God, why don't you just extinguish them?”
Cool my brow, ancient night! Divine and fair as you always were — O night, what purpose do you serve? There are no lovers, no dreams. O nursemaid, dead as a sleep without dreams, you no longer hallow anyone's prayers. O mother of us all, you don't bless a single heart smitten with love. There is no love.
R.U.R. (1920)
O little Town of Bethlehem, 2nd stanza http://books.google.com/books?id=Uh03AAAAMAAJ&q=%22O+morning+stars+together+Proclaim+the+holy+birth+And+praises+sing+to+God+the+King+And+peace+to+men+on+earth%22&pg=PA15#v=onepage (1868).
“The blind man carries a star on his shoulders.”
El hombre ciego lleva una estrella sobre sus hombros,
Voces (1943)
“Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.”
Stanza 2.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)
551-553
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
Context: Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.
“Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.”
No. 398
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
