Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·The moon✕clear

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1805

★ 1.0

Scripture · Religious literature

He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term.

The Quran, The Koran, 31:13 · 632

★ 1.3

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!

Astrophel and Stella · 1591

★ 1.9

That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the Moon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud · 1820

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Genesis 1:16

1405 BC

★ 2.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens · 1616

★ 2.1

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 2.1

The moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night.

Songs of Innocence · 1789

★ 2.1

The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest.

570 BC

★ 2.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

It is the very error of the moon. She comes more nearer Earth than she was wont And makes men mad.

William Shakespeare

Othello · 1604

★ 2.2

O, swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 2.3

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terre... These form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... This is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Vladimir Nabokov

1969

★ 2.7

The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.

1996

★ 3.5

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

1253

★ 3.7

Poem · Narrative poem

Till clombe above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside-

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Magnificent desolation.

1969

★ 3.7

Novel · Political literature

In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich · 1962

★ 4.5

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

1969

★ 9.5