Moonlight is the light that reaches Earth from the Moon, consisting mostly of sunlight, with some starlight and earthlight reflected from those portions of its surface which the Sun's light strikes.
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Famous quotes containing the word moonlight:
“In the moonlight the shepherds,
Soft lulld by the rills,
Lie wrapt in their blankets
Asleep on the hills.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
“I have said no
To everything, in order to get at myself.
I have wiped away moonlight like mud....”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our minds habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminated moments are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)