Famous quotes containing the words stars, burst and/or open:
“If men will believe it, sua si bona norint, there are no more quiet Tempes, nor more poetic and Arcadian lives, than may be lived in these New England dwellings. We thought that the employment of their inhabitants by day would be to tend the flowers and herds, and at night, like the shepherds of old, to cluster and give names to the stars from the river banks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Black flowers burst out wherever the night has knelt.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“And now that the end is near
The segments of the trip swing open like an orange.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)