Sky

And over all the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach,
studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. ~Walt Whitman,Bivouac on a Mountain Side.

This majestical roof fretted with golden fire. ~William Shakespeare

TheSkyis the portion of outer space or the atmosphere visible from a position within a world.

Quotes

• I have known the immensity of the sky high above the roses
  • He sabido la inmensidad del cielo alto sobre las rosas
  • Canción de la verdad sencilla/Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems ofJulia de Burgostranslated byJack Agüeros(1997)

• Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd,
  And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.
  • Thomas Campbell,The Soldier's Dream.

• I tell you naught for yourcomfort,
  Yea, naught for yourdesire,
  Save that the sky grows darker yet
  And thesearises higher.
  • G. K. Chesterton,inThe Ballad of the White Horse(1911) Book I: The Vision of the King

• Look up to the sky
  You'll never find rainbows
  If you're looking down.
  • Charlie Chaplin,"Swing High Little Girl", opening song written and sung by Chaplin for the 1969 re-release ofThe Circus(1928)-Full text online

• The sky is low, the clouds are mean
  • Emily Dickinson,title of poem.

• The mountain at a given distance
  In amber lies;
  Approached, the amber flits a little,—
  And that's the skies!
  • Emily Dickinson,Poems,XIX, Second Series (Ed. 1891).

• I talk to God, but the sky is empty.
  • Sylvia Plath,Unabridged Journals.

• From the sky
  one cannot touch the heart of the stone
  petrified with a desire to live
  after living a life of softness for long,
  one cannot get to touch the tenderness of a flower
  smiling despite being battered in turn
  by heat and frost.
  • Suman Pokhrel,From the Sky

• So whoeverGodwants to guide - He expands his breast to [contain]Islam;and whoever He wants to misguide - He makes hisbreasttight and constricted as though he were climbing into the sky. Thus does God place defilement upon those who do notbelieve.
  • Qur'an,6:125

• When thesunis overthrown, and when thestarsfall, and when thehillsare moved, and when thecamelsbig withyoungare abandoned, and when the wild beasts are herded together, and when theseasrise, and whensoulsare reunited, and when the girl-child that was buried alive is asked: For whatsinshe was slain, and when the pages are laid open, and when the sky is torn away, and when hell is lighted, and when the Garden is brought nigh, (then) every soul will know what it hath made ready.
  • Qur'an,81:1 - 81:14

• I have no need for the boundless sky; the moon and stars are beyond my grasp. I prefer to exist in the real world, for dreams alone cannot sustain me.
  • Sanu Sharma

• And over all the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach,
  studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
  • Walt Whitman,Bivouac on a Mountain Side.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 713-14.

• And they were canopied by the blue sky,
  So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
  That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.
  • Lord Byron,The Dream,Stanza 4.

• "Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
  As some one somewhere sings about the sky.
  • Lord Byron,Don Juan(1818-24), Canto IV, Stanza 110.

• Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.
  • Thomas Carlyle,The French Revolution, A History(1837), Volume III, p. 347.

• How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky
  The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
  • Thomas Hood,written in a Volume of Shakspeare.

• Bolt from the blue.
  • Horace,Ode.I. 34.

• The sky
  is that beautiful old parchment
  in which the sun
  and the moon
  keep their diary.
  • Alfred Kreymborg,Old Manuscript.

• When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
  • Matthew, XVI. 2.

• The planets in their station list'ning stood.
  • John Milton,Paradise Lost(1667; 1674), Book VII, line 563.

• When children from other countries are telling us that we've made them fear the sky, it might be time to ask some hard questions.
  • John Oliver (comedian)Last Week TonightEp. 19Dronesas quoted by[1]

• And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
  Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,
  Lift not your hands to it for help—for it
  As impotently moves as you or I.
  • Omar Khayyam,Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam(1120), FitzGerald's translation, Stanza 72.

• From hyperborean skies,
  Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.
  • Alexander Pope,Dunciad,III, line 85.

• A sky full of silent suns.
  • Jean Paul(Richter),Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces,Chapter II.

Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity. ~John Ruskin

• Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.
  • John Ruskin,The True and Beautiful,The Sky.

• The moon has set
  In a bank of jet
  That fringes the Western sky,
  The pleiads seven
  Have sunk from heaven
  And the midnight hurries by;
  My hopes are flown
  And, alas! alone
  On my weary couch I lie.
  • Sappho,Fragment,J.S. Easby-Smith's translation.

• This majestical roof fretted with golden fire.
  • William Shakespeare,Hamlet(1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 312.

• Heaven's ebon vault,
  Studded with stars unutterably bright,
  Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,
  Seems like a canopy which love has spread
  To curtain her sleeping world.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley,Queen Mab(1813), Part IV.

• Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si cœlum ruat?
  • I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall?
  • Terence,Heauton timoroumenos,IV. 3. 41.

• Of evening tinct,
  The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.
  • James Thomson,The Seasons,Summer(1727), line 150.

• Non alias cælo ceciderunt plura sereno.
  • Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue).
  • Virgil,Georgics(c. 29 BC), I. 487.

• Green calm below, blue quietness above.
  • John Greenleaf Whittier,The Pennsylvania Pilgrim,Stanza 113.

• The soft blue sky did never melt
  Into his heart; he never felt
  The witching of the soft blue sky!
  • William Wordsworth,Peter Bell,Part I, Stanza 15.