milky quotes

‚Robaron los conquistadores una pa  gina al Universo! Aquellos eran los pueblos que llamaban a laV|a La  ctea'el camino de las almas'; para quienes el Universo estaba lleno del Grande Esp|ritu, en cuyo seno se encerraba toda luz. The conquistadores stole a page from the Universe! Those were the good people who called the Milky Way 'the souls'path'; for them the Universe was full of the Great Spirit, within which all light was contained.

-Jose Mart| 
  Obra literaria,'El hombre antiguo de  Ame  rica y sus artes primitivas' ('Ancient Man in  America and his Primitive  Arts').

  Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.

- Alexander Pope
  An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.99^104.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

-William Wordsworth
  'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published1807).

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous harmony of leaves, Has blotted out man's image and his cry.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'The Sorrow of Love', stanza1. Collected inThe Rose (1893).