Sky

thumb|right|And over all the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. ~ Walt Whitman, Bivouac on a Mountain Side. thumb|This majestical roof fretted with golden fire. ~ William Shakespeare The Sky is the portion of outer space or the atmosphere visible from a position within a world. Quotes I have known the immensity of the sky high above the roses He sabido la inmensidad del cielo alto sobre las rosas Canción de la verdad sencilla/Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos translated by Jack Agüeros (1997) Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd,And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. Thomas Campbell, The Soldier's Dream. I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. G. K. Chesterton, in The Ballad of the White Horse (1911) Book I : The Vision of the King Look up to the sky You'll never find rainbows If you're looking down. Charlie Chaplin, "Swing High Little Girl", opening song written and sung by Chaplin for the 1969 re-release of The Circus (1928) - Full text online The sky is low, the clouds are mean Emily Dickinson, title of poem. The mountain at a given distance In amber lies;Approached, the amber flits a little,— And that's the skies! Emily Dickinson, Poems, XIX, Second Series (Ed. 1891). I talk to God, but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath, Unabridged Journals. From the sky one cannot touch the heart of the stone petrified with a desire to live after living a life of softness for long, one cannot get to touch the tenderness of a flower smiling despite being battered in turn by heat and frost. Suman Pokhrel, From the Sky So whoever God wants to guide - He expands his breast to [contain] Islam; and whoever He wants to misguide - He makes his breast tight and constricted as though he were climbing into the sky. Thus does God place defilement upon those who do not believe. Qur'an, 6:125 When the sun is overthrown, and when the stars fall, and when the hills are moved, and when the camels big with young are abandoned, and when the wild beasts are herded together, and when the seas rise, and when souls are reunited, and when the girl-child that was buried alive is asked: For what sin she was slain, and when the pages are laid open, and when the sky is torn away, and when hell is lighted, and when the Garden is brought nigh, (then) every soul will know what it hath made ready. Qur'an, 81:1 - 81:14 We live in a fascinatingly beautiful universe. For thousands of years, people have been looking at the sky and enumerating the Astronomical object objects seen; for hundreds of years astronomers have been using telescopes to discover fainter components. Only during the last 30 years have astronomers and physicists been able to look at the sky in Electromagnetic spectrum wavelength bands other than that of visible light. Such views have shown us entirely new classes of objects and phenomena never imagined. Vera C. Rubin, Stars, galaxies, cosmos: the past decade, the next decade Science 209 4452 1980 64-71 (reprint as an essay in the book Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters) I have no need for the boundless sky; the moon and stars are beyond my grasp. I prefer to exist in the real world, for dreams alone cannot sustain me. Sanu Sharma And over all the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Walt Whitman, Bivouac on a Mountain Side. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 713-14. And they were canopied by the blue sky,So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,That God alone was to be seen in Heaven. Lord Byron, The Dream, Stanza 4. "Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"As some one somewhere sings about the sky. Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto IV, Stanza 110. Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims. Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, A History (1837), Volume III, p. 347. How bravely Autumn paints upon the skyThe gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! Thomas Hood, written in a Volume of Shakspeare. Bolt from the blue. Horace, Ode. I. 34. The skyis that beautiful old parchmentin which the sunand the moonkeep their diary. Alfred Kreymborg, Old Manuscript. When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red. Matthew, XVI. 2. The planets in their station list'ning stood. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VII, line 563. When children from other countries are telling us that we've made them fear the sky, it might be time to ask some hard questions. John Oliver (comedian) Last Week Tonight Ep. 19 Drones as quoted by And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help—for itAs impotently moves as you or I. Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), FitzGerald's translation, Stanza 72. From hyperborean skies,Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise. Alexander Pope, Dunciad, III, line 85. A sky full of silent suns. Jean Paul (Richter), Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces, Chapter II. thumb|Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity. ~ John Ruskin Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity. John Ruskin, The True and Beautiful, The Sky. The moon has set In a bank of jetThat fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heavenAnd the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! aloneOn my weary couch I lie. Sappho, Fragment, J.S. Easby-Smith's translation. This majestical roof fretted with golden fire. William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 312. Heaven's ebon vault,Studded with stars unutterably bright,Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,Seems like a canopy which love has spreadTo curtain her sleeping world. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab (1813), Part IV. Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si cœlum ruat? I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? Terence, Heauton timoroumenos, IV. 3. 41. Of evening tinct,The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine. James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 150. Why Is the sky? Louis Untermeyer, "Questions at Night" Non alias cælo ceciderunt plura sereno. Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue). Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), I. 487. Green calm below, blue quietness above. John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, Stanza 113. The soft blue sky did never meltInto his heart; he never feltThe witching of the soft blue sky! William Wordsworth, Peter Bell, Part I, Stanza 15. External links sky Category:Nature lt:dangus