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Ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars". The phrase has origins with Virgil , who wrote in his Aeneid : " sic itur ad astra " ('thus one journeys to the stars') [ 1 ] and " opta ardua pennis astra sequi " ('desire to pursue the high[/hard to reach] stars on wings'). [ 2 ]
The desire to reach hearts is wise.” “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”
Per ardua ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "through adversity to the stars" [1] or "through struggle to the stars" [2] that is the official motto of the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force, as well as the Royal Indian Air Force until 1947.
The Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star, also known simply as Song, is a poem by John Donne, one of the leading English metaphysical poets.Probably first passed round in manuscript during the final decade of the 16th century, it was not published until the first edition of Donne's collected poems in 1633 - two years after the poet's death. [2]
It has also been adapted by, for example Stephen Hawking as "When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol" and by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in his 1963 film Le Mépris, when a producer says to Fritz Lang: "Whenever I hear the word culture, I bring out my checkbook." Lang evokes the original line when he answers "Some years ago ...
"Reach for the Stars", a Cash Cash song for the Sega video game Sonic Colors "Reach for the Stars" (will.i.am song), 2012 "Reach for the Stars" (Shirley Bassey song), 1961 "Reach for the Stars" (Richard Harvey song), 1984 "Reach" (S Club 7 song), commonly referred to as "Reach for the Stars" Reach for the Stars, a 1981 CBS space-themed campaign
The poem is settled in the rose, to the point that the poem’s tone is one of sweet, suffering melancholy, a tone that is reaching for the sublime. In the 1890s, says Stephen Coote, Yeats was concerned for the "spiritual regeneration of his people": he felt that a spiritual posture of awe, a posture taken before those things that were ...
Reaching for the Stars may refer to: Reaching for the Stars, a 1955 West German drama film "Reaching For The Stars" (song), a 2012 song by Will.i.am;