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• I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Moon, Blood, Veins

  Muhammad Iqbal (2010). “The Secrets of the Self”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Fall, Can Do

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• It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Men, Done

  "Modern Painters".

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• The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Blue, Witchery

  William Wordsworth (1835). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.105

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• Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not.

  Cameron Diaz

  Sleep, Promise, Body

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• The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

  Emily Dickinson

  Distance, Lying, Mountain

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

  Grandma Moses

  Top Down, People, House

  Tampa Bay Magazine, p. 205, January/February 2008.

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• The planets in their station list'ning stood.

  John Milton

  Lists, Planets, Stations

  John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book VII. - XII.]: 2”, p.56

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• One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding but it is always there. The more we can see the magic in one thing, a tiny flower, a mango, someone we love, then the more we are able to see the magic in everything and in everyone. Where does the mango stop and the sky begin?

  Joshua Kadison

  Flower, Magic, Doe

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• I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

  John Masefield

  Lonely, Stars, Sea

  "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).

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• The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Heaven

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• So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Ocean

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 166

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• Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

  John Ruskin

  Teaching, Men, Talking

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Stars, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Love, Sweet, Men

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• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

  Eric Hoffer

  God, Stars, Airplane

  www.nytimes.com. July 21, 1969.

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• The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

  James Hervey

  Heaven, Deities, Praise

  James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.284

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• He broke through the barriers of the skies.

  William Herschel

  Science, Memorial, Broke

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• When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.

  Rumi

  Earth, Lovers, Shakes

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• Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

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• Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

  William Cowper

  Daughter, Eye, Earth

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1859). “Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]”, p.33

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• My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

  Nizar Qabbani

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Nizar Qabbani, “My Lover Asks Me”

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• Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky!
  Yea! every thing that is and will be free!
  Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be,
  With what deep worship I have still adored
  The spirit of divinest Liberty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Blue, Liberty, Sun

  "France: An Ode". Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798.

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  I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

  Rick Bragg

  Baby, Stars, Grandma

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from May 17, 2013

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