{"quotes":[{"text":"Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["aching","dark","darkness","glint","glint-of-a-star","grin","light","melancholy","need","night","night-sky","pain","poetry","require","scar","scars","shade","star","starlight","stars","twinkle","twinkling","twinkling-star"],"id":23122,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I cast my eyes out to the seaAnd gaze at all eternity.Until forever turns to night.My eyes then lift to catch starlight.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["eternity","forever","night","poems","poetry","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","sea","sky","starlight"],"id":63479,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Time’s relativity is considered and abandoned, for the more revelatory experiences of starlightin strands, and pearly floors that span as far as absolute compassion...","author":"Kristen Henderson","tags":["compassion","heaven","magic","nde","near-death-experience","pearly","poem","starlight"],"id":158241,"author_id":"Kristen+Henderson"},{"text":"I chose to live in the Ether, to be starlight and legend....","author":"Laurie Perez","tags":["eurydice","expansion","legend","mythology","self-actualization","starlight","transcendence"],"id":174116,"author_id":"Laurie+Perez"},{"text":"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["inspiration","remembrance","starlight","stars"],"id":260511,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myself—maybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["light","night","starlight"],"id":298824,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of the Sahara Desert…one night, in a youth hostel that was more like a stable, I woke and walked out into a snowstorm. But it wasn’t the snow I was used to in Minnesota, or anywhere else I had been. Standing bare chest to cool night, wearing flip-flops and shorts, I let a storm of stars swirl around me. I remember no light pollution, heck, I remember no lights. But I remember the light around me-the sense of being lit by starlight- and that I could see the ground to which the stars seemed to be floating down. I saw the sky that night in three dimensions- the sky had depth, some stars seemingly close and some much farther away, the Milky Way so well defined it had what astronomers call “structure”, that sense of its twisting depths. I remember stars from one horizon to another, making a night sky so plush it still seems like a dream.It was a time in my life when I was every day experiencing something new. I felt open to everything, as though I was made of clay, and the world was imprinting on me its breathtaking beauty (and terrible reality.) Standing nearly naked under that Moroccan sky, skin against the air, the dark, the stars, the night pressed its impression, and my lifelong connection was sealed.","author":"Paul Bogard","tags":["astronomy","beauty","epiphany","openness","philosophy","present-moment","starlight","stars"],"id":302802,"author_id":"Paul+Bogard"},{"text":"You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his dream; I would like to live till dawn, but I know I have less than three hours left. It will be night, but no matter. Dying is simple. It does not take daylight. So be it: I will die by starlight.","author":"Victor Hugo","tags":["dying","simple","starlight"],"id":368686,"author_id":"Victor+Hugo"},{"text":"Starlight is best felt at noon...","author":"Will Advise","tags":["blues","feeling","feelings","night","noon","starlight","stars"],"id":405355,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched—by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever.” (p.33).","author":"Tim Willocks","tags":["angel","apple","asymmetry","atlantic","autumn","blind-man","blossom","bones","clock","colors","depression","eyes","god","horror","journey","left-eye","living-things","madness","mirror","nineteen-years-old","power-of-sight","prayer","questions","sacraments","smile","starlight","tree","wind"],"id":427623,"author_id":"Tim+Willocks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}