“The moon looks
On many brooks,
"The brook can see no moon but this."”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
While gazing on the Moon's Light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The moon looks
On many brooks,
"The brook can see no moon but this."”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
While gazing on the Moon's Light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in letter 169, from The Hague, January, 1882; as cited in Vincent van Gogh, Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, catalog-page: Dutch Period: - 4. Potato Diggers <br class="br">1880s, 1882
“There's the moon trying to look romantic
Moon's too old that's her trouble
Aren't we all?”
Roger McGough (1937) British writer and poet
"Aren't We All", from The Mersey Sound (1967)
“We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.”
Bill Whittle (1959) author, director, screenwriter, editor
2010s
“I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.”
Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient
Source: The English Patient
Brendan Behan (1923–1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright
Confessions of an Irish Rebel (1967 [1965])