North Celestial Pole

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

“Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints
Of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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