Bright Star Quotes:

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Stars, Bright Star, Burn Out

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

- John Keats

topic: Art, Stars, Night, Steadfast, Splendour

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

- John Keats

topic: Love, Marriage, Summer, Summer Inspirational, Summer Love

Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

- Cheryl Strayed

topic: Mother, Strong, Stars, Bright Star

A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

- John Keats

topic: Lakes, Water, Poetry, Bright Star

To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.

- John Keats

source: John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.438

topic: Sweet, Fall, Taken, Bright Star

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

- John Keats

source: 'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

topic: Sweet, Art, Stars, Ripening, Moving Water

I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

- John Keats

source: John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.312, Harvard University Press

topic: Love, Romantic, Believe, Bright Star

Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

- John Keats

topic: Dream, Sleep, Past, Meadows, Adieu

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

- John Keats

topic: Love, Dream, Sleep, Adieu, Tender Is The Night

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

- John Keats

topic: Inspirational, Learning, Tree, Bright Star

You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.

- John Keats

source: John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Best Friend, Kissing, Movement, Bright Star

Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.

- John Keats

topic: Writing, Kissing, Poppies, Draught, Bright Star

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

- John Keats

topic: Kissing, Teenage Love, Lasts, Love Is Hard, Kissing And Love

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

- John Keats

source: Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

topic: Life, Beauty, Famous Love, Beautiful Nature, Definition Of Beauty

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

- Marcus Garvey

topic: Stars, Wake Up, Ends, Ethiopia, Bright Star

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

- Erasmus Darwin

topic: Stars, Night, Blue, Twinkling, Radiant Beauty

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

- Jane Campion

source: Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

topic: Stars, Sadness, Piano, Different Eras, Bright Star

Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers

topic: Life, Beautiful, Stars, Racial Prejudice, Age Love

So you used to know everything?" She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play." "To play what?" "This," she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Stars, Moon, Sky, Bright Star

When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Strong, Stars, Dark, Dark Clouds, Bright Star

Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.

- Mos Def

topic: Weed, Stars, Rap, Vapor, Skylines

When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raised, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.

- Owen Feltham

topic: Stars, Angel, Light, Bright Star

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

- Gayle Forman

source: Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.19, Penguin

topic: Stars, Home, Light, Where She Went, Bright Star

Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

topic: Stars, Eye, Thoughtful, Bright Star

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Stars, Dwelling, Violet, Bright Star

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

- Francis Scott Key

source: "The Star-Spangled Banner" (song) st. 1 (1814)

topic: Stars, Twilight, Home, Bursting, Banner

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

- Linda Ronstadt

topic: Romantic, Stars, Thinking, Bright Star

RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.

- Corey Taylor

topic: Stars, Memorable, Greed, Bright Star

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

- Shmuley Boteach

topic: Mother, Stars, Father, Bright Star