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“Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.”

Feels Earth Beautiful Space Darkness Sea Planets Moon Standing Machines Blue Shining Tranquility Planet Earth Time Machine Foreboding Blue Planet

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.”

Sky Moon Yellow Veils Caverns

Book:Salome

Source: Salome

“They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.”

Thinking Men Stills Earth Dies Heaven Grief Watches Rich Wise Sea Moon Train Calm Rage Melancholy Heirs Mirth Majestic

Book:1914 & Other Poems

Source: 1914 & Other Poems

“As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.”

World Firsts Humans Long Earth Land Moon Safe Creatures Intelligent Corners Legacy Cosmos Living Creatures Intelligent Life

Author:Hugh Downs

“Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.”

Men Shows Form Mines He Man Lovers Moon Speech Degrees Fairs Dear Thee Features True Lovers

Book:Poetical Works Complete in One Volume

Source: Poetical Works Complete in One Volume

“I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.”

Thinking World Writing Character Would Be Actors Roles Moon Casts Rhythm Tone Twilight Vacuums New Moon

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.”

I Can Ends Done Running Earth Moon Tasks Green Corners Bows Soar Green Earth

Author:John Milton

“What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.”

Ifs Way Suffering Wish Perfect Needed Moon Equal Disease Errors Bread Intensity Desirable Not Being Perfect

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.”

Body Faces Water Lines Dark Moon Lifts Creeps Haggard

Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.”

Sin Moon Shame Affair

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!”

Feels Whole Life Is Stars Sky Moon Western Lovely Tonight Foreheads

Author:Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.”

Men Matter Might Mother Virtue Our Lives Wife Changed Honor Moon No Matter What Grandmother Threatened Virgins Restlessness Rigidity Faithless Mother Grandmother Wife Mother Togas

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.”

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.”

Water Cold Moon Careful Shoulders Grass Mask Carrie Pregnant Bedroom Womb Handful Pregnant Women Cold Water Meningitis

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.”

Matter Quality Moon Ultimate Saint Edges Wheels Covered What Matters Beard Shepherds Razors Lace Wagons Cupboards Rubble Metallic Wagon Wheels

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.”

Break Moon Ocean Window

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.”

Men Grows Wise Return Moon Adversity Branches Pondering Ponder This

Author:Bhartrhari

“A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.”

Mind Wells Two Strong Moon Highest Weak Adversity Prosperity Tides Weak Minds

Author:David Hare

“I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!”

Lasts Night Asks Grows Simple Growing Up Moon Shore Last Night Maidens

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.”

Men Book Earth Night Dark Sky Moon Terror Eclipse

Book:THE DREAMLANDS SERIES: 20+ Gruesome Tales of Terror in One Premium Edition: The Dream Cycle: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, From Beyond, The Nameless City, Ex Oblivione, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Polaris, Hypnosäó_

Source: THE DREAMLANDS SERIES: 20+ Gruesome Tales of Terror in One Premium Edition: The Dream Cycle: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, From Beyond, The Nameless City, Ex Oblivione, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Polaris, Hypnosäó_

“We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.”

Wind Moon Spread Bones Flesh Neighborhood Machinery Whispering Residents Flexing

Author:Jack Gilbert

“I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?”

Trying Light Dark Broken Moon Gold Fallen Perfume Floats Petals Lagoons

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.”

Heart Night Wonderful Heard Crazy Havens My Heart Moon Shadow Lonely Green Flight Covered Valleys Lanes Gypsy Wisps Skylarks

Author:Johnny Mercer

“Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.”

Book Country Kids Certain Girl Water Church Boys Teach Plans Students Moon Picks Raises Great Things Celebrate Temples Festivals Brad Bookshelves Kwanzaa

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.”

World Two Found Perfect Half Moon Towns Fundamentals Hills Candle Burned Transparent Luminous Polished Unleashed A Perfect World Two Of Us Uncovering Unbound

Book:Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

“If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.”

Source: An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer

“I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.”

Should Believe Wells Imagine Moon Financial Surface Astronomy Enormous Budgets Exploration Worthwhile Imagine That Nasa Slag

Author:Fred Hoyle

“At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.”

Night Heaven Walks Moon Pregnant Slippery Pregnant Women

Book:An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington

Source: An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington

“There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?”

Trying Looks Moon

Author:Roger McGough

“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”

Sun Moon Brightness

Author:Anaxagoras

“The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.”

Dies Imagination Sun Moon Bird Wings Breasts

Author:Elinor Wylie

“When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.”

Thinking Mind Space Moon My Thoughts Of My Mind Balconies Gravitation

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.”

Men Heart Women Moon

Author:Grenville Kleiser

“Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.”

Feels Whole Earth Universe Sun Planets Revolution Moon Shame Remains Dues Circles Regions Annuals Center Of The Universe Stationary Traverse

Book:Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions

Source: Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions

“Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon”

World Reason Light Causes Sun Sky Moon

Author:Cat Stevens

“I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in”

Want Looks I Can Loses Moon West Senses Fence Ridges

Author:Cole Porter

“A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!”

Stars Sea Moon Mirrors Bars Ships Silver Splendid Isle

Author:James Elroy Flecker

“The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.”

World Hands Night Stars Moon Lonely Blue Shining Flying Pale Weary My Thoughts Folds Trembling Swans Trembling Hands

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!”

“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”

“Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.”

Heart Light Darkness Clear Meditation Seeing Moon Dawn Priests Halls One With Nature Darkness Before The Dawn

Author:Yasunari Kawabata

“The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.”

Earth Force Sun Moon Distance Rounds Squares Vary Orbit Ratios Inverse

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.”

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone.”

Ifs Long Gone Moon Staring Blink

Author:Conor Oberst

“There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.”

Firsts Inspiration Generations Planets Moon First Time Leaving Excited Flight Coming Back

Author:Alan Shepard

“I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.”

Knows I Can Moon Pasadena

Author:Alan Shepard

“I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.”

People Thinking Men Moon Achievement Accomplishment

Author:Alan Shepard

“I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.”

I Can Earth Moon Swings

Author:Alan Shepard

“Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.”

World Needs Sun Moon

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.”

Effects Car Moon Engines Carbon Tunnels Fiber Tubs

Author:Brock Yates