Quotations About / On: MOON

  • 41.
    Under the night moon,
    playing the flute quite badly—
    my neighbor—listen.
    (Koyo (late nineteenth-centu, Japanese poet. Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond; unpublished. (Untitled haiku).)
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  • 42.
    Pray you no more of this, 'tis like the howling of Irish
    wolves against the moon.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Rosalind, in As You Like It, act 5, sc. 2, l. 109-10. Dogs or wolves barking at the moon offered a proverbial image of ineffectual outcry. She is calling on the lovers to stop complaining.)
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  • 43.
    The moon is nothing
    But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
    Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
    Into a rising birth-rate.
    (Christopher Fry (b. 1907), British playwright. Thomas Mendip, in The Lady's Not for Burning, act 3 (1949).)
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  • 44.
    never again would she lose her ball,
    that moon, that Krishna hair,
    that blind poppy, that innocent globe,
    that madonna womb.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Frog Prince.")
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  • 45.
    Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 10, p. 196, selection 5[1], number 81, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Unpublished fragments dating to November 1882February 1883. Originally meant to be attributed to Zarathustra in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.)
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  • 46.
    And then we'll sit
    in the shadowy spruce and
    pick the bones
    of careless mice,
    while the long moon drifts
    toward Asia
    (John Haines (b. 1924), U.S. poet. If the Owl Calls Again (l. 13-18). . . New from the Glacier; Selected Poems. (1982) Wesleyan University Press.)
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  • 47.
    The moon is a sow
    and grunts in my throat
    Her great shining shines through me
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American poet. Song for Ishtar (l. 1-3). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 48.
    In my craft or sullen art
    Exercised in the still night
    When only the moon rages
    And the lovers lie abed
    With all their griefs in their arms,
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. In My Craft or Sullen Art (l. 1-5). . . The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions.)
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  • 49.
    Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,
    And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast,
    (John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. The Eve of St. Agnes (l. 17-18). . . The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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  • 50.
    Seen from the moon we are all the same size.
    (Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. "Idee 155," The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).)
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