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#1

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: poetry

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#2

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

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#3

“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
― Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Almagest

tags: eternity, mortality, night-sky, sky, stars

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#4

“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.”
― Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610: "From Doubt to Astonishment"

tags: beauty, moon, night-sky, sky

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#5

“Was this the bright vastness the poet Bashō saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

tags: milky-way, night-sky

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#6

“The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.”
― Ted Chiang, The Great Silence

tags: fermi-paradox, graveyards, loneliness, night, night-sky, silence, the-universe

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“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”
― Ptolemy

tags: eternity, mortality, night-sky, sky, stars

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#8

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

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#9

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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#10

“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.”
― carl sandburg

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#11

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”
― Robert Frost

tags: moon, poetry, robert-frost

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#12

“I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

tags: cemetery, moon

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#13

“Tell me the story..
About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe...”
― Hanako Ishii

tags: love, moon, sun

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#14

“Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel...
Sleeping our noons away”
― Teitoku, Japanese Haiku

tags: contemplation, haiku, moon

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#15

“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

tags: logic, moon

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#16

“Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: moon

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#17

“The moon in her chariot of pearl”
― Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose

tags: moon

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#18

“And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony

tags: moon

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#19

“As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: different, fire, frost, lightning, moon, moonbeam, moonlight, opposites

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#20

“Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: lyrics, moon, song, tides, water

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#21

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

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#22

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

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#23

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inertia, physics, universe

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#24

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: sense-of-wonder, universe

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#25

“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, magic, universe

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#26

“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: music, power-of-music, universe

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#27

“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, love, sun, universe

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#28

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: universe

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#29

“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: poetry, yeats

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#30

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: irish, irish-writer, joy, tragedy, william-butler-yeats

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