Pole Vault Stars

Famous quotes containing the words pole, vault and/or stars:

    Midwinter spring is its own season
    Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
    Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Heaven froze above, severe; the clouds congeal,
    And through the crystal vault appeared the standing hail.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    So that’s our new flag. The thing we’ve been fighting for—thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.
    Lamar Trotti (1898–1952)