If there must be a moon, let it be high,
a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian,
nor claimed by the goddesses all around us.

No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John

Look at the moon up there. You see her very plainly, don't you? She's very real. But if the sun were to shine you wouldn't be able to see her at all. It was rather like that. I was the moon... When the sun came out, Simon couldn't see me anymore... He was dazzled. He couldn't see anything but the sun — Linnet.

Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.

The moon is profound except when we land on it.

outside
It's another world
When the moon is high

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

Moonlight

I know when the sun is in China
because the night shining other-light
crawls into my bed. She is moon.
Her eyes slit and yellow she is the last
one out of a dingy bar in Albuquerque — Fourth Street, or from similar avenues
in Hong Kong. Where someone else has also
awakened, the night thrown back and asked,
'where is the moon, my lover'?
And from here I always answer in my dreaming,
'the last time I saw her was in the arms
of another sky'.

Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon?

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies.

The moon appears to be really present, but if you strike the water, nothing will be there. Similarly, your opponent should find nothing solid to strike

Why don't you fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.