Convinced Quote by Mary Ruefle

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight…

— Billy Collins

“It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.”

— Patti Smith

Poetry is the dark side of the moon,

— Charles Wright

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

— Anonymous

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

— Khalil Gibran

“The moon is more interesting than the unchanging sun. That is surely why it is used in poetry and the sun is not—unless one…

— Liza Dalby

“The Moon is the light of the night.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

— Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

“A night of full moon is favourable to tales of apparitions.”

— Romulo Gallegos

The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.

— Chet Raymo

I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary…

— William Gilmore Simms