Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Sunan Abu Dawood, Book of Knowledge, Hadith 3634
Sunni Hadith
Source: Big Sur
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Sunan Abu Dawood, Book of Knowledge, Hadith 3634
Sunni Hadith
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Nacht faltet zitternde Hände über der müden Welt. Aus blassem Blau steigt leuchtend der Mond. Meine Gedanken fliegen wie einsame Schwäne in die Sterne.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
Source: The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610: "From Doubt to Astonishment"
Robert Louis Stevenson book A Child's Garden of Verses
Windy Nights, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Variant: When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist
Source: Sailor Moon Stars, #3
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IV Perspective of Disappearance