C/1702 H1 - Closest Approaches To Earth

Famous quotes containing the words closest, approaches and/or earth:

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

“Someone approaches to say his life is ruined
and to fall down at your feet
and pound his head upon the sidewalk.”
—David Ignatow (b. 1914)

“And if joy were not on the earth,
There were an end of change and birth,
And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
And in some gloomy barrow lie
Folded like a frozen fly....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)