Need help with a qupte

Pocket Size Asian

"And as we lie beneath the stars we realize how small they are. If they could love like you and me, imagine what the world could be."

I know this quote is in a Nickleback song, If Everyone Cared... but I heard this quote a while back before the song ever came out and I was wondering if anyone knew where or who said it before Nickleback made it super famous. I've been banging my head against the wall for a few years and searched everywhere and I just can't find it.

Please help me!

Kate of Lokys

Are you perhaps thinking of the W.H. Auden poem?

[URL]http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/54/[/URL] wrote:

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Pocket Size Asian

Kate of Lokys wrote: »

Are you perhaps thinking of the W.H. Auden poem?

Kate,

I don't think this is it. I remember one of my friends in high school (2000-2004) having that quote up on his AIM away message a lot. I don't talk to him any more and he changed his AIM name so I can't ask him.

Thank you for that poem though! Its really pretty!