The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

-Anaxagoras
Fragment in Plutarch De facie in orbe lunae, 929b.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July1969.We came in peace for all mankind.

-Anonymous
AD1969  Text of the plaque left on the moon by the first astronauts to walk there, Buzz  Aldrin and Neil  Armstrong, 20  Jul.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing theagonies of the damned, but give hima littlemetal, a fewchemicals,somewireand twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

-Baker, Russell Wayne
  Editoral pages, the NewYork Times, 21  Jul.

'I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.'

-Ballads
'Sir Patrick Spens'.

When Iconsider thyheavens,theworkofthy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.Thou madest himtohave dominionover the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 8:3^6.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the L, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The L is thy keeper: the L is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moonby night.The L shall preservetheefromallevil: he shall preserve thy soul. The L shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORDPsalms121:1^8.

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation12:1.

   There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things: there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

-Borrow, George Henry
Lavengro, ch.25.

And find a poor devil has ended his cares At the foot of your rotten-runged rat-riddled stairs? Do I carry the moon in my pocket?

-Browning, Robert
  Men andWomen,'Master Huges of Saxe-Gotha'.

And it isgood to cheat the pair, and gibe, Letting the rank tongue blossom into speech. Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos! Thinketh, He dwelleth i'the cold o'the moon. Thinketh He made it, with the sun to match, But not the stars; the stars came otherwise.

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'Caliban upon Setebos', stanza1.

It was upon a Lammas night, When corn rigs are bonie, Beneath the moon's unclouded light, I held awa to Annie.

-Burns, Robert
  'Song, The Rigs o'Barley', or 'Corn Rigs  AreBonie', stanza1.

And with as delicate a hand Could twist as tough a rope of sand; And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull That's empty when the moon is full; Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnishe'  d.

-Butler, Samuel
  Hudibras, pt.1, canto1, l.155^60.

The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with heröa sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past eternity.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza 27.

He thought about himself, and the whole earth, Of man the wonderful, and of the stars, And how the deuce they ever could have birth; And then he thought of earthquakes, and of wars, How many miles the moon might have in girth, Of air-balloons, and of the many bars To perfect knowledge of the boundless skies; And then he thought of Donna Julia's eyes.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza 92.

   The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two.

-Rochdale
  The Vision of  Judgement, stanza 2.

A savage place! as holyand enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Kubla Khan'.

   who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the skyöfilled with pretty people?

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  'Seven Poems, VII'. David Niven used the phrase for his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon (1975).

Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.

-de la Mare,Walter
  'Silver'.

'It is,'says Chadband,'the ray of rays, the sun of suns, the moonof moons,thestarofstars.It isthelightof Terewth.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Bleak House, ch.25.

O more than moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere, Weep me not dead, in thine arms, but forbear To teach the sea what it may do too soon.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'A  Valediction: Of  Weeping', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).