Celestial

Famous quotes containing the word celestial:

    Say next to holiness is the will thereto,
    And next to love is the desire for love,
    The desire for its celestial ease in the heart,
    Which nothing can frustrate, that most secure,
    Unlike love in possession of that which was
    To be possessed and is.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)