Cups Quote by Li Bai

Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought,…

— Jean Ingelow

I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and…

— Buzz Aldrin

“On Drinking Alone by Moonlight Here are flowers and here is wine, But where’s a friend with me to join Hand in hand and…

— Li Po

“Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up, and beheld a radiant form rise…

— Mary Shelley

“I climbed the hill of firs and looked down over the fields of mist and silver in the moonlight. The shadows of the ferns…

— L.M. Montgomery

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure.

— Yosa Buson

“And the two women stood side by side looking at the slender, flowering tree. Although it was so still it seemed, like the flame…

— Katherine Mansfield

A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my…

— Anne Rice

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and…

— Dante Alighieri

I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know…

— Marcel Proust

“The hot humid day had followed the sun westward, leaving a cool midnight breeze. The sky, God’s special gift to the sailor, was free…

— Lawrence K. Laswell

“For one moment, she stood stock-still, drinking in the simple beauty of the marble fountain, the base of its pedestal wreathed in delicate fronds,…

— Stephanie Laurens