Pleiades in Folklore and Literature - Quotations

Quotations

“	Δέδυκε μεν ἀ σελάννα καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δὲ νύκτες πάρα δ᾽ ἔρχετ᾽ ὤρα, ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω. The Moon is set, And the Pleiades. Night's half gone, Time's passing. I sleep alone now.	”
	— Sappho

“	Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.	”
	— Job 9:9

“	Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?	”
	— Job 38:31

“	It behoveth you to seek agreement and to be united; it behoveth you to be in close communion one with the other, at one both in body and soul, till ye match the Pleiades or a string of lustrous pearls.	”
	— 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, p. 85

“	Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?	”
	— Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe

“	Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.	”
	— Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall

“	Can I get two maybe even three of these, Comin' from a space to teach you of the Pleiades.	”
	— Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Can't Stop"

“	Pleiades callin' her home Seven Sisters, she hears her distant Sisters	”
	— Jimmy Buffett, "Desdemona's Building a Rocket Ship"

“	Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades, loosed in December, I promised you I'd set them to verse, so I'd always remember	”
	— Joanna Newsom, "Emily"

“	Our shells clacked on the plates. My tongue was a filling estuary, My palate hung with starlight: As I tasted the salty Pleiades Orion dipped his foot into the water.	”
	— Seamus Heaney, "Oysters"

“	Last night I saw the Pleiades again, Faint as a drift of steam From some tall chimney-stack;	”
	— Arthur Adams, "The Pleiades"

“	The Pleiades are an extraordinarily beautiful and brilliant star cluster in the constellation of Taurus. I have a large picture of them hanging in my recording studio, and sometimes when I look at this picture, I am inspired to compose a certain kind of music, which is very different from the music I usually compose, and very different from anything I have ever heard before. This album is a collection of those pieces.;	”
	— Gerald Jay Markoe, From the insert of the 1989 album Music From The Pleiades

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