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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.


Jean Ingelow

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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and si...
ELIZABETH BIBESCO But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
C.S. LEWIS With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
OSCAR WILDE Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
CONFUCIUS Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
CONFUCIUS On a night without the moon or stars you can’t see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES The sun to me is dark / And silent as the moon, / When she deserts the night / Hid in her vacant, in...
JOHN MILTON A full moon, a quiet night. That is so special.
PAUL PETERSEN For one night or the other night / Will come the Gardener in white, and gathered flowers are dead, Y...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star
CONFUCIUS The moon was sewn into the sky that night
MARKUS ZUSAK Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun...
AMIT RAY We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moo...
FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and th...
JOHN MILTON The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
RUMI The Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Birds, the Animals, the Flowers, are all proof that a Universal Po...
RVM See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how ...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity

-Belly ...
JENNY HAN I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a sp...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE The Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Birds, the Animals, the Flowers, are all proof that a Universal Po...
RVM The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
FREDERICK L. KNOWLES Slowly, silently, now the moon / Walks the night in her silver shoon.
WALTER DE LA MARE The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
BIBLE Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We were out on night-vision goggles and using forward-looking infrared to help our search. Unfortuna...
GRAHAM BUSCHOR Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship).
YASMIN MOGAHED The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon.
LAURA KREITZER A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idl...
WU-MEN Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When id...
WU-MEN The moon, like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delightSits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask ...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON “Life is ephemeral. Night set to be over, the sun ready to rise, flowers waiting to bloom, but unk...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arriv...
ISAAC WATTS The flowers take the tears/ of the weeping night/ And give them to the sun/ for the day's delight.
JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER, JR. We are liveborn in the light of the sun & the moon not the darkness of the clouds & night.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around...
GEORGES SIMENON The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softe...
GEORGE VECSEY For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
CHRISTOPHER SMART The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the dark...
SHANNON L. ALDER The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.
WARSAN SHIRE It's known that a night is sweet when there are many stars and moon, but it's also known that they c...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES Valentine's night is the busiest night of the year for us. We're even busy during the day with guys ...
EDWARD SHINNICK At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.
KAMAND KOJOURI May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way...
IRISH BLESSINGS I think I can hear the unseen moon
ALEXANDRA OLIVA During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blac...
DAVID GRANN The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tonight or every night if you wish you can have a very distinguished guest from the space: Just open...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I got to bed later than most
People to see the moon in the night sky.
And wake up earlier ...
BED,SLEEP,DREAMS,GOODNIGHT,GOODMORNING,SUNRISE,SUNSET. Your tenderness has pervaded into the very pore of my being. Last night I inhaled the fragrance of t...
AVIJEET DAS I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs.
JOHN KEATS Good night stars ... Good night moon ... Good night trees Good night soil ... We live between the ea...
FEMALE IMAGINATION The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gath...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The moon has seen many a theory come and go.
MARTY RUBIN I've always loved flowers, as a little girl I'd collect flower objects and little flower boo...
AERIN LAUDER That’s how it is, day after day... night after night. The Moon chases her sunsets constantly, hopi...
KAYE ALLEN But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, ...
BAYARD TAYLOR There is having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is n...
BUDDHA Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, musi...
MAIRA KALMAN The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float up...
ANATOLE FRANCE Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku....
SANTōKA TANEDA 'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those...
LUANNE RICE It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.
STEVEN HERRICK Let us be like the moon with love and beauty.
Let us follow the night to love the tranquility a...
DEBASISH MRIDHA I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
DAVID MACKAY If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night witho...
ATHARVA VEDA White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer...
MASAHARU ANESAKI Nature is not modified by us. The Sun ,the moon, rain ,air ,human body, animals,flowers,........are ...
KOWSALAPATHY The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she refle...
JEFFREY FRY Haunted moonlit night, witches will go riding and black cats will be seen, the moon will laugh and w...
LILY CHATTERJEE I look at the moon and it looks really beautiful!.. Then I look at you... and.. I think I'll look at...
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SUSAN BETH PFEFFER We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence...
MOTHER TERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....
MOTHER THERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....
MOTHER TERESA The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For t...
CHRISTOPHER SMART The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
ALFRED NOYES The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
ALFRED NOYES This way, people can see every one of our spring flowers.
BENNO DOBBE There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out...
MICHAEL FOSSEL We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
BURT RUTAN You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one ...
SARAH DESSEN It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. ...
SARAH DESSEN You can have all the money you want. I want peace, good night sleep, calmness of mind and contented ...
LEAH DANCEL Got no checkbooks, got no banks, Still I'd like to express my thanks; I've got the sun in the mornin...
IRVING BERLIN While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance....
GENA SHOWALTER When we think of the sun and the moon we think of day and night .If we thought for a second we would...
GARY F EVANS...

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JEAN BAUDRILLARD The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corn...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're cau...
JEAN ANOUILH Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by p...
JEAN ANOUILH Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
JEAN COCTEAU Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
JEAN COCTEAU One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
JEAN ANOUILH If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characteriz...
JEAN PIAGET The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX