Famous quotes containing the words moon, landing, soviet and/or soft:
“The moon is full tonight
And hurts the eyes,
It is so definite and bright.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Once this soft turf, this rivulet’s sands,
Were trampled by a hurrying crowd,”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)