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“He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It
will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky
is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of
the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. XVI, v. 2-3)
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“"Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
As some one somewhere sings about the sky.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 110)
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“And they were canopied by the blue sky,
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Dream (st. 4)
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“Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit
strange victims.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: French Revolution (vol. III, p. 347)
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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 Quotes Source: Poems (XIX, second series (ed. 1891))
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“How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky
The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: Written in a Volume of Shakespeare
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“Bolt from the blue.”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Ode (I, 34)
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“And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to it for help--for it
As impotently moves as you or I.”
Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker") Quotes Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 72), (FitzGerald's translation)
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“The sky
is that beautiful old parchment
in which the sun
and the moon
keep their diary.”
Alfred Kreymborg Quotes Source: Old Manuscript
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“The planets in their station list'ning stood.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 563)
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“From hyperborean skies
Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: The Dunciad (III, l. 85)
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“A sky full of silent suns.”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. II)
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“Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never
the same for two months together; almost human in its passions,
almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its
infinity.”
Bayard Ruskin Quotes Source: The True and Beautiful--The Sky
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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 Quotes Source: Fragment, (J.S. Easby-Smith's translation)
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“I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,
forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily
with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me
a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look
you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof
fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a
foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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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 Quotes Source: Queen Mab (pt. IV)
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“I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall?
[Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?]”
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Quotes Source: Heauton timoroumenos (IV, 3)
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“Of evening tinct,
The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.”
James Thomson (1) Quotes Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 150)
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“Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt
from the blue.)
[Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes Source: Georgics (I, 487)
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“Green calm below, blue quietness above.”
John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes Source: The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (st. 113)
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“The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witching of the soft blue sky!”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Peter Bell (pt. I, st. 15)
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