Moon Quotes - Page 31

• POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

  Carl Sandburg

  Frogs, Golden, Lost

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whenever the moon and stars are set,
  Whenever the wind is high,
  All night long in the dark and wet,
  A man goes riding by.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Stars, Dark, Night

  'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'Windy Nights'

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• It is the sun that shares our works.
  The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sea, Sun, Share

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.168, Vintage

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• We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

  Garrison Keillor

  Husband, Father, Caring

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• When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Butterfly, Thinking

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

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• Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
  Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
  The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
  Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

  Allen Tate

  Eye, Feet, Hats

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

  George Berkeley

  God, Stars, Fall

  George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.134, 谷月社

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• The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.

  David Hume

  Religious, Support, Religion

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.

  Bruce Lee

  Stars, Compassion, Rivers

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• Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramé, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world.

  Robert Lloyd

  Summer, Past, Technology

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• Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

  Steven Chu

  Energy, Sustainable Energy, Shots

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• In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.

  Toni Packer

  Stars, Knowing, Listening

  Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• ... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Children, Responsibility, Government

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• I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.

  Walter Cunningham

  Change, Missing, Age

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• I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Reflection, Sky, Appreciate

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Man seeks answers from afar
  Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets
  but has not even gone into the silence of his being

  Rajneesh

  Men, Silence, Gone

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• Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

  Janet Flanner

  Beautiful, Loss, Night

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• When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.

  Sun Bu'er

  Loss, Worry, Pearls

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

  Philip Sidney

  Sky, Faces, Steps

  Astrophel and Stella sonnet 31 (1591)

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• As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am completely free With my friends, the white clouds, idling forever There are roads, but they do not reach the world Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts On a bed of stone I sit, alone in the night While a round moon climbs up Cold Mountain

  Hanshan

  Night, Clouds, White

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• In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart.

  Li Bai

  Energy, Males, Female

  David Hinton, Bai Li, Po Li, Li Po (1996). “The Selected Poems”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

  Maude Royden

  America, People, Heaven

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• While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn't sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn't such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Night, Ideas, Rivers

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• The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test is whether it works. And the great point about Newton’s theory of gravitation was that it worked, that you could actually say something about the motion of the moon without knowing very much about the constitution of the Earth.

  Hermann Bondi

  Knowing, Earth, Tests

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Rockets, Way

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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