Phoebe Cary Quotes

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

Underground, the stars are legend.

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

Every star may be a sun to someone.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

Outside the sky is light with stars

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.