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)

    “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)