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. |
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| — 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? |
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| — 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. |
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| — '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? |
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| — 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. |
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| — Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall |
| “ | Can I get two maybe even three of these, Comin' from a space to teach you of the Pleiades. |
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| — Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Can't Stop" |
| “ | Pleiades callin' her home Seven Sisters, she hears her distant Sisters |
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| — 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 |
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| — 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 |
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| — Seamus Heaney, "Oysters" |
| “ | Last night I saw the Pleiades again, Faint as a drift of steam From some tall chimney-stack; |
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| — 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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