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    The moon has set
    In a bank of jet
    That fringes the Western sky,
    The pleiads seven
    Have sunk from heaven
    And the midnight hurries by;
    My hopes are flown
    And, alas! alone
    On my weary couch I lie.

    by Sappho Found in Sky Quotes,
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only read more

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

by Unknown Author Found in: Sky Quotes,
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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 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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"Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
As some one somewhere sings about the sky.

"Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
As some one somewhere sings about the sky.

by George Gordon Noel Byron 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 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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Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit
strange victims.

Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit
strange victims.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Sky Quotes,
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky
The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky
The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

by Thomas Hood Found in: Sky Quotes,
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