Street light

A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path.

Quotes

• Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.”
  • Noam Chomsky

• Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”
  • Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

• Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination”
  • Andrew Lang

• This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.”
  • C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

• There was only this one lamp-post. Behind was the great scoop of darkness, as if all the night were there.
  • D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

• It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.
  • Lea Michele, Brunette Ambition

• Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine.
  • Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

• Lampposts look
  in the glow of their defeated light
  robbed by the fog
  but cannot tell
  if the streets
  lying by stretching limbs in courtyards
  are sleeping face downwards or supine.
  • Suman Pokhrel, Midnight Street

• All the friends that I've ever known
  are the street lamps I follow home
  • Tears into Wine, Billy Talent III (2009) by Billy Talent

• There go the street lights bringin on the night
  Here come the men faces hidden from the light
  • The Fire Down Below, Night Moves (1976), written by Bob Seger

• Stars below instead of above! I wanted to see them straight away. I prayed for a miracle, for the sun to set.
  • Tambu in Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga, p. 26. Zimbabwe Publishing House. ISBN 978-0-949225-79-5.