cosmic illumination Quotes

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

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

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.

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.

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

..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.

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.

In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that which gazes upon all things." And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?

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

The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.

Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.