Moonlight

Moonlight

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:

    “It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind’s habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminated moments are.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    ““I have said no
    To everything, in order to get at myself.
    I have wiped away moonlight like mud....””
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “In the moonlight the shepherds,
    Soft lull’d by the rills,
    Lie wrapt in their blankets
    Asleep on the hills.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)