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Do I sit, deformed, a naked egg,
Catching at Good-bye, harvest moon,
Without seeing the harvest or the moon?
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Man with the Blue Guitar.")
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The moon, the anchorless
Moon go swerving
Down at the earth for a catastrophic kiss.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The Dancer.")
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The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist.... When we describe the moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. repr. in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence, pt. 4, ed. E. McDonald (1936). "Introduction to The Dragon of the Apocalypse by Frederick Carter," London Mercury (July 1930).
Carter's book eventually appeared under a different title and without Lawrence's introduction.)
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We are not asking for the moon.
(Yasir Arafat (b. 1929), Palestinian leader. Quoted in Observer (London, February 7, 1982).)
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The Moon's the North Wind's cooky,
(Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), U.S. poet. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press.)
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In that grave One
They spoke of the sun
And moon and stars,
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "I Will Sing You One-O....")
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That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. The Cloud (l. 45-46). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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the clanging chains
of geese are harnessed to the moon:
(Roy Campbell (1902-1957), South African poet. Autumn (l. 6-7). . .
Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.)
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Only last year he said that the naked moon
Was not the moon he used to see, to feel
(In the pale coherences of moon and mood
When he was young), naked and alien,
More leanly shining from a lankier sky.
Its ruddy pallor had grown cadaverous.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Anglais Mort à Florence.")
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I see the moon,
And the moon sees me;
God bless the moon,
And God bless me.
(Unknown. I See the Moon (l. 1-6). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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