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  • In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. -- Jerry Saltz
  • Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • O starry night, This is how I want to die -- Anne Sexton
  • Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue. -- Don McLean
  • It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music -- Henning Mankell
  • The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die. -- Anne Sexton
  • Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here. -- Dave Matthews
  • By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate. -- Aimee Friedman
  • Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. -- Jean Cocteau
  • There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain. -- Van Morrison
  • And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. -- Don McLean
  • And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die. -- May Sarton
  • If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment. ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder? -- Jacob Needleman
  • Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land. -- Don McLean
  • Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience. -- Rebecca Goldstein
  • With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • But, enough of that for now. Let's get lost again in the starry night. -- William P. Young
  • Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth... -- Pablo Neruda
  • Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns. -- Lionel Johnson
  • Springtime blooms the starry treeBearing fruit the mariners see.High by night and low by dawnThe silver apple guides us home. -- F.T. McKinstry
  • Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body." -- Jean Cocteau
  • She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes... -- Lord Byron
  • Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. -- Victor Hugo
  • When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´. -- John Burroughs
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