Dust Light Star

Famous quotes containing the words dust, light and/or star:

    “Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

    “The light is like a spider.
    It crawls over the water.
    It crawls over the edges of the snow.
    It crawls under your eyelids
    And spreads its webs there
    Its two webs.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “What is Africa to me:
    Copper sun or scarlet sea,
    Jungle star or jungle track,
    Strong bronzed men, or regal black
    Women from whose loins I sprang
    When the birds of Eden sang?”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)