Pole Vault Stars

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

    Not because Socrates has said it, but because it is really in my nature, and perhaps a little more than it should be, I look upon all humans as my fellow-citizens, and would embrace a Pole as I would a Frenchman, subordinating this national tie to the common and universal one.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
    Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so
    That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone forever.
    I know when one is dead and when one lives;
    She’s dead as earth.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The stars are pears
    that no one can reach,
    even for a wedding.
    Perhaps for a death.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)