Bright Star Quotes

• Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

  John Keats

  Art, Stars, Night

  'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

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• I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

  John Keats

  Love, Marriage, Summer

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Strong, Real, Growing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.22, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

  John Keats

  Lakes, Water, Poetry

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• To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Fall, Taken

  John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.438

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• Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Art, Stars

  'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

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• I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Believe

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Dream, Sleep, Past

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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• was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Love, Dream, Sleep

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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• If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
  then it better not come at all.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Learning, Tree

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• You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.

  John Keats

  Best Friend, Kissing, Movement

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I want a brighter word than bright

  John Keats

  Want, Brighter

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.68

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  You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

  John Keats

  Kissing, Teenage Love, Lasts

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.162

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  A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

  John Keats

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

  Marcus Garvey

  Stars, Wake Up, Literature

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
  No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
  Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
  Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Beauty, Stars, Night

  Erasmus Darwin (1806). “Containing the loves of the plants”, p.165

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• With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

  Jane Campion

  Stars, Sadness, Piano

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

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• Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers

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• So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

  Jesse Jackson

  Stars, Burn Out

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• So you used to know everything?" She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play." "To play what?" "This," she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Moon, Sky

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• When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Stars, Dark

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• Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine,
  Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.

  Mos Def

  Weed, Stars, Rap

  Song: Respiration

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• When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raised, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.

  Owen Feltham

  Stars, Angel, Light

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• Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

  Gayle Forman

  Stars, Home, Light

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.19, Penguin

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• Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Eye, Thoughtful

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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