Quote by James Wright

“Standing still at dusk Listen . . . in far distances The song of froglings!”

— Buson

“- What's in the water? - Flowers and the part of the moon that isn't in the sky tonight.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Tarts and tadpoles!...The boy is still alive!”

— L. Frank Baum

“A waning moon hung over the cityscape like a Cheshire cat’s looming smile.”

— Sierra Dean

“Funny, one somehow imagines her snuffing quietly out now, the way the moon would if the sun vanished.”

— Mary Stewart

“So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the…

— Douglas Woolf

“There were frogs all right, thousands of them. Their voices beat the night, they boomed and barked and croaked and rattled. They sang to…

— John Steinbeck

“But if a peacock dances in the jungle, there is nobody to see its tail.”

— Salman Rushdie

“When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“In the distance, they could see the headlights from cars crossing the bridges like fireflies swarming the streets toward home.”

— Abby Slovin

“The children watch a distant point. Lamps go out. Some blind girls question the moon and spirals of grief rise in the air. The…

— Federico García-Lorca

“I wanted to turn away but I was trapped in that spot--in that moment--by those moon eyes. Because even though I couldn't see them,…

— Autumn Doughton