Morning Star Ceremony

Famous quotes containing the words morning, star and/or ceremony:

“At the piano, scales, arpeggios
And chords, the morning exercises,
The afternoon’s reading, the night’s reflection,
That’s how to produce a virtuoso.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The flame from the angel’s sword in the garden of Eden has been catalysed into the atom bomb; God’s thunderbolt became blunted, so man’s dunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

“We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)