The moon in her chariot of pearl. Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending – something dead, cold, and lifeless. Bertand Russell
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St Anthony
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon. Ptolemy
Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I’ve ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
White in the moon the long road lies,
The moon stands blank above;
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love. A E Housman, A Shropshire Lad
And all the insects ceased in honour of the moon. Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler
The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing. Enid Blyton, Mr Galliano’s Circus
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendour of the event, feeling in the pit of one’s stomach the separation from terra. Vladimir Nabokov
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. George Carlin
Well, I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. Ron Paul
Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos. Tom Hanks
When Kennedy said, ‘Let’s go to the moon,’ we didn’t yet have a vehicle that wouldn’t kill you on launch. He said we’ll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people. Neil deGrasse Tyson
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon. Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
It’s very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there’s radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It’d be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth. Michio Kaku
The moon pull’d off her veil of light,
That hides her face by day from sight
(Mysterious veil, of brightness made,
That's both her lustre and her shade),
And in the lantern of the night,
With shining horns hung out her light. Samuel Butler, Hudibras II:905
He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no;
That would, as soon as e’er she shone straight,
Whether ’twere day or night demonstrate;
Tell what her d’ameter to an inch is,
And prove that she’s not made of green cheese. ibid. III:261
The devil’s in the moon for mischief; they
Who call’d her chaste, methinks, began too soon
Their nomenclature; there is not a day,
The longest, not the twenty-first of June,
Sees half the business in a wicked way,
On which three single hours of moonshine smile —
And then she looks so modest all the while! Lord Byron, Don Juan I:113
The moving Moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
See yonder fire! It is the moon
Slow rising o’er the eastern hill.
It glimmers on the forest tips,
And through the dewy foliage drips
In little rivulets of light,
And makes the heart in love with night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘Christus, The Golden Legend’ 1872
The starry host rode brightest, till the Moon,
Rising in clouded majesty, at length,
Apparent queen, unveil’d her peerless light,
And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw. John Milton, Paradise Lost
... the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein ch4
The moon is at her full, and riding high,
Floods the calm fields with light.
The airs that hover in the summer sky
Are all sleep to-night. William Cullen Bryant, The Tides
Out went the taper as she hurried in;
Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died. John Keats, The Eve of St Agnes 1820
The moon put forth a little diamond peak
No bigger than an unobserved star,
Or tiny point of fairy cimetar. John Keats, Endymion IV:499
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space. John F Kennedy address to Congress 25th May 1961
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. John F Kennedy, Rice Stadium 12th September 1962
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey on the moon.
I can’t pay no doctor bills but Whitey’s on the moon.
Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still while Whitey’s on the moon.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey’s on the moon.
No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey’s on the moon.
I wonder why he’s uppin me. Cuz Whitey’s on the moon?
I was already givin’ him fifty a week but now Whitey’s on the moon.
Taxes takin’ my whole damn check,
The junkies makin’ me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin’ up,
And as if all that shit wasn’t enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell but Whitey’s on the moon.
Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon?
How come there ain’t no money here? Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon.
I think I’ll send these doctor bills
airmail special …
to Whitey on the moon. Gil Scott-Heron, Whitey on the Moon 1972
I’ve lived with this idea all my life and now that it’s really happened I can hardly believe it. No admiration can be too great for those magnificent men who brought this strange spidery module down on the moon. And this obviously is a moment humanity is never going to forget. Patrick Moore, BBC 1969