North Celestial Pole

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

    “It is the sea that whitens the roof.
    The sea drifts through the winter air.
    It is the sea that the north wind makes.
    The sea is in the falling snow.
    This gloom is the darkness of the sea.”
    —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)

    “No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)