Star Spangled War

Famous quotes containing the words star, spangled and/or war:

    “Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
    Now there is no question even of that, but only
    Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off,
    With an occasional dream, a vision ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The Spacious Firmament on high,
    With all the blue Ethereal Sky,
    And spangled Heav’ns, a Shining Frame,
    Their great Original proclaim:
    Th’ unwearied Sun, from day to day,
    Does his Creator’s Pow’r display,
    And publishes to every Land
    The Work of an Almighty Hand.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    “At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”
    —Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)