North Celestial Pole

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

“The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“poor black cherubs rise at seven
To do celestial chores.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

“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)