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    Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never
    the same for two months together; almost human in its passions,
    almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its
    infinity.

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From hyperborean skies
Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.

From hyperborean skies
Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Sky Quotes,
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I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,
forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it read more

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,
forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily
with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me
a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look
you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof
fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a
foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Sky Quotes,
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I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall?
[Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid read more

I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall?
[Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?]

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The sky
is that beautiful old parchment
in which the sun
and the moon
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The sky
is that beautiful old parchment
in which the sun
and the moon
keep their diary.

by Alfred Kreymborg Found in: Sky Quotes,
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Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt
from the blue.)
[Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt read more

Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt
from the blue.)
[Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]

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Green calm below, blue quietness above.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

by John Greenleaf Whittier Found in: Sky Quotes,
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A sky full of silent suns.

A sky full of silent suns.

by Jean Paul Richter Found in: Sky Quotes,
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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

The planets in their station list'ning stood.

by John Milton Found in: Sky Quotes,
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Bolt from the blue.

Bolt from the blue.

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