The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.
We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...
The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.
Dancing up the full moon_x000D_ _x000D_ Round some fair new altar_x000D_ _x000D_ Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
Night and day you are the one,_x000D_ _x000D_ Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
So you used to know everything?" She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play." "To play what?" "This," she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars.
I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.
She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
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