Moon Landing/soviet Unmanned Soft Landings 1966-1976

Famous quotes containing the words moon, landing, soviet and/or soft:

    Sad men made angels of the sun, and of
    The moon they made their own attendant ghosts,
    Which led them back to angels, after death.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    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)

    So they lived. They didn’t sleep together, but they had children.
    —Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

    Not honey, not the sweet
    stain on the lips and teeth:
    not honey, not the deep
    plunge of soft belly
    and the clinging of the gold-edged
    pollen-dusted feet.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)