North Celestial Pole

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

    “A brush had left a crooked stroke
    Of what was either cloud or smoke
    From north to south across the blue;
    A piercing little star was through.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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

    “I wouldn’t take the Pope too seriously. He’s a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.”
    —Muriel Spark (b. 1918)