Moon Quotes
"The moon has endured more than anyone can know." -Maddy, in FOXFIRE the book
"Then the noise faded and Legs squinted up at the sky, the moon so bright you'd never think it could be merely rock like the earth's common rock and lifeless, merely reflected light from an invisible sun and not a powerful living light of its own..." -Maddy
"If I was the moon, I'd feel bad. We never write. We never call. And we certainly don't come for a visit anymore." -James Lileks
"The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest." -Sappho, Fragment 4
"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas." -Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon
-Walter de la Mare Silver
Dancin' in the moonlight
everybody feelin' warm, and right
it's such a fine and natural sight
everybody's dancin' in the moonlight
-King Harvest, "Dancin' in the Moonlight"
Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?
Over the sea.
Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving?
All that love me.
-Richard Monckton Milnes
They dined on mince and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
-Edward Lear, "The Owl and the Pussycat"
Her shape arises,
She is less guarded than ever,
yet more guarded than ever,
...nothing is conceal'd from her
...she is the most belov'd
...she is silent--
-Walt Whitman
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That orbed maiden
With white fire laden
Whom mortals call the Moon
-Percy Bythe Shelley, "The Cloud"
I see the moon,
The moon sees me
God bless the moon,
And God bless me.
-A nursery rhyme
As long as the moon shall rise
As long as the river shall flow
As long as the sun shall shine
As long as the grass shall grow
-Native American prayer
Been looking up, the moon she's so bright
She's so white, she's so clean
I'm telling you, she's everything
-PJ Harvey
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave a luster of midday to objects below.
-Clement C. Moore (supposedly), "A Visit From Saint Nick"
And all the while, the moon was shining,
And with its feeble rays outlining
Tatyana's graceful, pallid air,
Her flowing tears, her loosened hair
And there, reclining in a cranny,
Before her youthful charge's eyes,
Wrapped in a jacket twice her size,
And capped with scarf, sat gray-haired Nanny.
The whole room shimmered in a trance
Beneath the moonbeam's silent dance.
-A. Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (Johnston's translation)
Pity me not the waning of the moon,
Or that the ebbing tide goes out to sea,
Or that a man's desire is hushed so soon,
And you no longer look with love on me.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That though, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid since she envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
-Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, 2:2:4
"O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb..." -Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, 2:2:115
"The Church says the earth is flat, but I know that it's round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." -Ferdinand Magellan
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." -Mark Twain
"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?" -the Joker
"Under the full moon life is all adventure." -Sigurd Olson, The Singing Wilderness
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