“"Stars in the sky / and dreams are few / the ones who come true"
(from Ridere di te, 1987)”
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Vasco Rossi 18
Italian singer-songwriter 1980Related quotes
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: I will never have any religion that I cannot defend -- that is, that I do not believe I can defend. I may be mistaken, because no man is absolutely certain that he knows. We all understand that. Every one is liable to be mistaken. The horizon of each individual is very narrow, and in his poor sky the stars are few and very small.
“May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?”
“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“More stars fall from the loosened sky.”
Pluraque laxato ceciderunt sidera caelo.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 145
(zh-CN) 一样是月明，
一样是隔山灯火，
满天的星
只使人不见，
梦似的挂起。
"Do Not Throw Away" (《别丢掉》), translated by Michelle Yeh in A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (University of Iowa Press, 2002), p. 41
Variant translation:
The moon is still so bright;
Beyond the hills the lamp sheds the same light.
The sky besprinkled with star on star,
But I do not know where you are.
It seems
You hang above like dreams.
Xu Yuanchong, Vanished Springs: The Life and Love of a Chinese Intellectual (Vantage Press, 1999), pp. 44–45
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. ? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“When the star dies, its eye closes; tired of watching, it flies back to its first bright dream.”
“The Star and the Eye,” p. 46
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Grain”