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Samuel Taylor Coleridge3 quotes
Till clombe above the eastern bar
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The 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 · 1798In 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 · 1805William Shakespeare3 quotes
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 · 1597It is the very error of the moon.
She comes more nearer Earth than she was wont
And makes men mad. — William Shakespeare · 1604The moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. — William Shakespeare · 1616Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1 quote
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962Buzz Aldrin1 quote
Magnificent desolation. — Buzz Aldrin · 1969Dogen1 quote
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen · 1253John Milton1 quote
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. — John Milton · 1667Ming-Dao Deng1 quote
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. — Ming-Dao Deng · 1996Muhammad1 quote
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. — Muhammad · 632Neil Armstrong1 quote
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong · 1969Percy Bysshe Shelley1 quote
That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820Philip Sidney1 quote
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face! — Philip Sidney · 1591Sappho1 quote
The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest. — Sappho · 570 BCVladimir Nabokov1 quote
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 · 1969William Blake1 quote
The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night. — William Blake · 1789