Coleridge Biographia Literaria|volume=II|chapter=Letter II. (To a Lady.)|pages=214–215|pageref=215|passage=But it hotel has one great advantage for a stranger, by being in the market place, and the next neighbour of the huge church of St. Nicholas: ... A better pole-star could scarcely be desired.
Emerson Complete Works|volume=I|page=84|passage=Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?
Caine Bondman|volume=II|chapter=Strong Knots of Love|page=118|passage=Love was her pole-star. What was Jason's? Only the blankness of despair.
