Famous quotes containing the words star, transit and/or center:
“What is this flesh I purchased with my pains,
This fallen star my milk sustains,
This love that makes my hearts blood stop
Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones
And bids my hair stand up?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (17791848)
“Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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