Triple Conjunction Mars

Famous quotes containing the words triple, conjunction and/or mars:

    “And DANTE searched the triple spheres,
    Moulding nature at his will,
    So shaped, so colored, swift or still,
    And, sculptor-like, his large design
    Etched on Alp and Apennine.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Venus me yaf my lust, my likerousnesse,
    And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)