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Inspirations
At Night
Sunk deep in the night
I sink in the night
Standing alone underneath the sky
I feel the chill of ice
On my face
I watch the hours go by
The hours go by ....
You sleep
Sleep in a safe bed
Curled and protected
Protected from sight
Under a safe roof
Deep in your house
Unaware of the changes at night
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Lyrics: Robert Smith
Lumber (excerpt)
"Full moon, the hills are flying
Orion like a kite,
I feel the tug of silver"
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Isobel Thrilling from "Chemistry of Angels"
"The stars are really as much a part of us as our beautiful rolling
countryside, our mountains, rivers, and cities. We take pictures of all these,
so why not take pictures of the stars?"
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R. Newton Mayall & Margaret W. Mayall from
"Skyshooting - Photography for Amateur Astronomers"
The Sleeper (excerpt)
"At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon
An opiate vapor, dewy, dim
Exhales from out her golden rim"
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Edgar Alan Poe
"Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night".
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Sarah Williams from "The Old Astronomer to his Pupil"
"O how healthy, how pleasant, and how sweet it is to sit in solitude, to be
silent and to talk with God!"
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Thomas a Kempis
"I felt like I was at the end of a thin cord that could be cut at any time.
It was precarious but yet I felt comfortable. I felt something other than what
we can visually sense"
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Jim Irwin (Lunar Module Pilot Apollo 15)
"What are you looking at? What are you looking through? You can call it the
universe, but it's the infinity of space and the infinity of time"
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Eugene Cernan (Commander Apollo 17)
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment
is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world"
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Oscar Wilde
"We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time"
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T S Eliot
"For now we see through a glass, darkly"
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1 Corinthians, xiii, 12
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