Paul Bowles Quotes

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.

All the stars all the galaxies are in the same spot night after night after night. And Planet Nine, when we see it, will slowly move across the sky.

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Stars appear as pin-points of light. They don't twinkle there as they do when we see them from earth because the atmospheric blanket is not there.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars

I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

Stars don't sit still, they twinkle

I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.

..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.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!