North Celestial Pole

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

    “Refinement’s origin:
    the remote north country’s
    rice-planting song.”
    —Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)

    “Say next to holiness is the will thereto,
    And next to love is the desire for love,
    The desire for its celestial ease in the heart,
    Which nothing can frustrate, that most secure,
    Unlike love in possession of that which was
    To be possessed and is.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “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)