Moon Poet Quotes

#1. The Japanese poet Masahide once wrote,"The barn has burnt down - now I can see the moon." I now understand what that means. Life can truly begin after a fire when all is seemingly lost. All of the unnecessary has been burned away.

Kenn Bivins

#2. You should be more careful
when you move, my dear
what with you...

spilling moonlight
into my poem, with a mere
flick of your hand.

Sanober Khan

#3. Or like a poet woo the Moon,
Riding an armchair for my steed,
And with a flashing pen harpoon
Terrific metaphors of speed.

Roy Campbell

#4. Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting. Faith is journeying through space and through time.

Frederick Buechner

#5. Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Julio Cortazar

#6. The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. I secretly assumed, as poets do,
The duty on me to define the moon.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. Which one is the true one, I don't ask, they don't tell.

Ally Condie

#9. The philosopher may sometimes love the infinite; the poet always loves the finite. For him the great moment is not the creation of light, but the creation of the sun and moon.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon's reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the poet's equivalent of dying bravely in battle.

Matthew White

#11. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

Klaus Kinski

#12. ...the Moon, the enemy of poets...

("Merchant's Two Sons")

Giambattista Basile

#13. Once
There was a quiet island,
With a name.
You must believe me
When I say that sunlight,
Impure but beautiful,
Broke upon the bay, silvered
The unrepentant, burning moon.

Edwin Thumboo

#14. Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me.

Robert Burns

#15. War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Mark Twain

#16. I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car."
Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?"
"No. But I like to pretend it is.

Ilona Andrews

#17. Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

Joseph O'Neill

#18. Soldier, there is a war between the mind
And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
For that the poet is always in the sun,
Patches the moon together in his room
To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
Up down. It is a war that never ends.

Wallace Stevens

#19. Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

Allen Ginsberg

#20. A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.

George Jean Nathan

#21. We are living through an age of peculiar obsessions.

Jeremy Maddux

#22. Life is too short not to eat raw and it's even shorter if you don't.

Marie Sarantakis

#23. I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

William Gilmore Simms

#24. Any idiot can see that if you don't want to be fat, you shouldn't eat so much. You should move more.

Kelly Barson

#25. The moon is my fear.
The sun is my heart afire.
The stars, my love songs.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.

Jeff Lemire

#27. The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

Yasunari Kawabata

#28. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

#29. The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. ... Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

Cid Corman

#30. But as poet Mizuta Masahide wrote, "Barn's burnt down / now / I can see the moon.

Brene Brown

#31. I would do a 'Pitch Perfect 29', where the Bellas take on the Spaniards instead of the Germans. All the girls would have to learn Spanish. I'll teach them!

Chrissie Fit

#32. They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

Terrence Howard