Pole Vault Stars

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

    “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)

    “Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
    Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so
    That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone forever.
    I know when one is dead and when one lives;
    She’s dead as earth.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It was like passing a boundary to dive
    Into the sun-filled water, brightly leafed
    And limbed and lighted out from bank to bank.
    That’s how the stars shine during the day.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)