Moon Quotes

The Moon and its phases gave man his first calendar. Trying to match that calendar with the seasons helped give him mathematics. The usefulness of the calendar helped give rise to the thought of beneficent gods. And with all that the Moon is beautiful, too.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is.

men and women

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all of the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

We have seen
The moon in lonely alleys make
A grail of laughter of an empty trash can.

The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two—four—even nine lavish moons.  Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

The moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The moon is the mother of pathos and pity.