Moonlight Quotes - Page 2

• There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

  Marcel Proust

  Silence, Ears, Flutes

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.138, Vintage

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• Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lying, Stories, Fabulous

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

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• She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

  Raymond Chandler

  Taj Mahal, Looks, Way

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Later Novels & Other Writings”

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• There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

  Irving Berlin

  Romance, And Love, May

  1936 'Let's Face the Music and Dance', in the film Follow the Fleet.

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• Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance
  With the stars up above in your eyes...
  And I'm trying to please to the calling
  Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low
  And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
  And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush...
  One more Moondance with you in the moonlight
  On a magic night

  Van Morrison

  Stars, Eye, Heart

  Van Morrison (2016). “Toma interior”, p.82, Malpaso Ediciones SL

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• Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.

  Jules Renard

  Dream, Moon, Thinking

  Jules Renard (1964). “The journal of Jules Renard”

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• The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Eye, Half

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• At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Dark, Night

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• The spring is fresh and fearless
  And every leaf is new,
  The world is brimmed with moonlight,
  The lilac brimmed with dew.
  
  Here in the moving shadows
  I catch my breath and sing -
  My heart is fresh and fearless
  And over-brimmed with spring.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Moving, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Rain, Simple

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• The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Moon, Snow, Hills

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'll come to thee by moonlight,
  though hell should bar the way.

  Alfred Noyes

  Bars, Way, Hell

  "The Highwayman" l. 29 (1907)

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• What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

  Pearl Cleage

  Crazy, Ordinary Days, Like Love

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• It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Night, Atmosphere

  Henry David Thoreau, Horace Elisha Scudder, Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1803). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.408

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• Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Voice, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.306

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• In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

  Gregory Maguire

  Summer

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• Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
  All soft and still and fair;
  The solemn hour of midnight
  Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,
  
  But most where trees are sending
  Their breezy boughs on high,
  Or stooping low are lending
  A shelter from the sky.
  
  And there in those wild bowers
  A lovely form is laid;
  Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
  Wave gently round her head.

  Emily Bronte

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  Emily Bronte, “Moonlight, Summer Moonlight”

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• Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

  Edgar Degas

  Photography, Atmosphere, Daylight

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

  Yosa Buson

  Scent, Far Away, Wisteria

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• It was autumn and falling stars
  Covered the shrivelled forms
  Crouched in the moonlight.

  Wallace Stevens

  Stars, Fall, Autumn

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.147, Vintage

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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.296, GENERAL PRESS

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• How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?

  Lana Turner

  Doe, Sunlight, Happens

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• We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Looks, Desktop, Feels

  "Miguel de Icaza: "We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight" - derstandard.at/1216918402134/Miguel-de-Icaza-We-could-refresh-the-look-and-feel-of-the-entire-desktop-with-Moonlight". Interview with Andreas Proschofsky, derstandard.at. March 08, 2008.

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