Dust Light Star

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

    “O, why should Love, like men in drinking-songs,
    Spice his fair banquet with the dust of death?”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “This Light inspires, and plays upon
    The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
    And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
    As through a Trunk, or whisp’ring hole,
    Such language as no mortal Ear
    But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “I put the gold star up in the front window
    beside the flag. Alterations is what I know
    and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)