“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”

“No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.”

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”

“I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.”

“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”

“The soul of man is like the rolling world,
One half in day, the other dipt in night;
The one has music and the flying cloud,
The other, silence and the wakeful stars.”

“A billion stars go spinning through the night,
glittering above your head,
But in you is the presence that will be
when all the stars are dead.”

“All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.”

“the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own”

“One naked star has waded through
The purple shadows of the night,
And faltering as falls the dew
It drips its misty light.”