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)

    “I dreamed, last night, that I could vault over any height it pleased me. That was something; and I contemplated myself with a slight satisfaction in the morning for it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)