Bryan Procter Quotes

There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

There's no night without stars.

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.

The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon. It's always there and continues to inspire humanity.

I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

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

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

My stars shine darkly over me

Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.