cosmic display Quotes

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.