Pole Vault Stars

Famous quotes containing the words pole, vault and/or stars:

    O, withered is the garland of the war,
    The soldier’s pole is fallen!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The constellated sounds
    ran sprinkling on earth’s floor
    As the dark vault above
    with stars was spangled o’er.
    Robert Bridges (1844–1930)

    ... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
    Edna O’Brien (b. c. 1932)