“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies: A Collection of Proverbs, Aphorisms and Maxims

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Bengali polymath 1861–1941

Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer

Chick tracts, " Allah Had No Son http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp" (1994)

“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

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Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

“I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.”

Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True

Source: I Know This Much Is True

“Contented sleep releases the limbs. We await full moon. Await the dance!”

Max Pechstein (1881–1955) German artist

4 short quotes of Max Pechstein, 1918, in Aus dem Palau-Tagebuch, 'Das Kunstblatt' 2, no. 6, p. 179; as cited in 'The Revival of Printmaking in Germany', I. K. Rigby; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 43

“His everyday conscious self is only a small part of the mind, like the final crescent of the moon. In moments of crisis, the full moon suddenly appears.”

Colin Wilson (1931–2013) author

Source: Poetry and Mysticism (1969), p. 156
Context: These are the visionary, mystical moments, when a man 'completes his partial mind'. His everyday conscious self is only a small part of the mind, like the final crescent of the moon. In moments of crisis, the full moon suddenly appears.