“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
“If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;
Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.
Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly.
Fly high, my baby bird,
My angel, my only”
— Louis Sachar, book Holes
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