Brittle Stars

Famous quotes containing the words brittle and/or stars:

    Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?
    He is a brittle crazie glasse:
    Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford
    This glorious and transcendent place,
    To be a window, through thy grace.
    George Herbert (1593–1633)

    The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
    Georg Büchner (1813–1837)