Caption Your Next Moon Photo With One of These Quotes
When it comes to poetic symbols, there's not much to rival the Moon. That big hunk of rock in the sky has inspired lines of poetry and prose by authors, poets, and singers throughout the centuries, from Rumi to William Shakespeare to Maya Angelou to Phoebe Bridgers. The Moon has been used as a symbol of change; of emotion; of destiny; of love.
In astrology, the Moon rules our emotional inner worlds. It governs the romantic, moody sign of Cancer. Its phases signal times of beginnings (New Moons) and completions (Full Moons); these phases are also prominent in manifestation practices and other spiritual rituals. And your Moon sign not only rules your emotions; it also plays a big role in compatibility. Basically, the Moon is super important!
Whether you're looking for the perfect caption for your Instagram photo of a crescent moon; you want a quote to focus on while meditating during the Full Moon; or you want show the Moon some love after that alleged hexing this summer, we've got you. Read on for some quotes about the Moon.
Quotes about the Moon and Love
"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other." —from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
“yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: / yours is the darkness of my soul’s return / –you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars” —from ”#38” by e. e. Cummings
“[A womanist] Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.” —from "Womanist" by Alice Walker
“And if I could give you the moon / I would give you the moon.” —from “Moon Song” by Phoebe Bridgers
“I found my dreams / but the moon took me away / It lifted me up to the firmament and suspended me there / I saw how my heart had fallen / on your path / singing a song.” —from "The Awakening" by Rumi
“A flower knows, when its butterfly will return / and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand / but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon, / when I don’t know, if you will ever come back.” —from A Thousand Flamingos by Sanober Khan
Quotes about the Moon and Change
“O, swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circle orb / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” —from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.” —from Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.” —from Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony by Ming-Dao Deng
“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." —from “the Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri
Quotes about the Moon and Emotions
"The moon is the mother of pathos and pity." —from “Lunar Paraphrase” by Wallace Stevens
“A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.” —from “Jellyfish” by Andrea Gibson
“I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes.” —Afrika Bambaattaa to the Independent
Quotes about the Moon and Creativity
“We all shine on / like the moon and the stars and the sun” —from “Instant Karma!” by John Lennon
“The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning.” —from The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
“In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you’ll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.” —Anton Chekhov; often abbreviated to, “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Quotes about the Moon and Determination
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”—from John F. Kennedy's "Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort"
“I’d like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don’t see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.” —Shirley MacLaine to Reuters
“Just like moons and like suns, / With the certainty of tides, / Just like hopes springing high, / Still I’ll rise.” —from “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
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