North Celestial Pole

Famous quotes containing the words north, celestial and/or pole:

    There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
    —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)

    The screen of supreme good fortune curved his absolute smile into a celestial scream.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    O, withered is the garland of the war,
    The soldier’s pole is fallen!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)