The moon is brighter since the barn burned.


Matsuo Basho

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My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon
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Ever since my house burned down, I see the moon more clearly.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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JAMES ELROY FLECKER
The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of t...
KEN KESEY
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gath...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The moon has seen many a theory come and go.
MARTY RUBIN
The moon was sewn into the sky that night
MARKUS ZUSAK
I haven't heard anything like that since the orphanage burned down
MARK TWAIN
You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one ...
SARAH DESSEN
It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. ...
SARAH DESSEN
This is the first time we've burned these units. And it might be the first time they were burned sin...
LESLEY SMITH
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
DAVID MACKAY
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol...
MATTHEW HAMMOND
Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out...
MICHAEL FOSSEL
We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
BURT RUTAN
Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA
The light on the night side of Saturn is brighter than a full moon here on Earth?even though [Saturn...
ANDREW INGERSOLL
The barn really smelled like a barn with all the hay.
DAKOTA FANNING
This means we are still dealing with an active herpes outbreak but all the animals in Barn 8 have al...
GUY HOHENHAUS
If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to...
DREW HOUSTON
We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
ALAN BEAN
I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in...
ROMAN PAYNE
Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.
ILONA ANDREWS
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death."
STEVEN ERIKSON
I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE
Which would cause the fire to burn back on itself where there's no fuel since its already been burne...
JOHN WAYNE
I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.
REID SCOTT
When you fly to the moon you don't need a rocket. You just need the imagination!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
That was nice to hear, a little shiver down the spine, actually. It's been a little while since I've...
WADE DUBIELEWICZ
Overall, the situation is getting brighter.
RICHARD BAYER
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KAREN MITCHELL
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE
Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
The flames of the luau bonfire burned brightly. Sparks flew into the sky and disappeared before they...
VICTORIA KAHLER
Don't shut the barn door after the horse is stolen
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Every farmer designs a barn for himself ... so they're distinctive. By and large, every barn is uniq...
LU DONNELLY
Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
Now I only need to look
out at them through my sky-blue eyes.
They see their own ill will<...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Don't seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise: seek what they sought.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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William's eyes glowed like two amber coals. She met his gaze and flinched. No emotion reflected in t...
ILONA ANDREWS
Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black...
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ILONA ANDREWS
Some people in the town did not seem to care about the festival and were watching football on TV. Th...
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It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an a...
ROMAN PAYNE
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Home...
ROMAN PAYNE
Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
PAT CONROY
I am so excited for that barn to go away. It was time to raze the barn.
CINDY KNOPP
I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kenne...
EVEL KNIEVEL
The barn was our playground.
ANNE HALME
Mother Superior jump the gun...
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LAUREN MYRACLE
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON
The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA
Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID
Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.
BRADLEY CHICHO
I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when ...
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We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen...
EUGENE CERNAN
The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars...
DAVID IGNATIUS
We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen...
GENE CERNAN
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
No light is brighter than wisdom, wisdom is the light in the world.
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Kaldar picked up a rock and tossed it into the clearing. It landed between two wards. A green stem s...
ILONA ANDREWS
She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"
He showed her his teeth. "Yes.
ILONA ANDREWS
You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?"
"Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think someth...
ILONA ANDREWS
It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?"
She had no ...
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Oh, Gods."
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You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up ...
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We needed a refrigerator for our new place and I've never bought a refrigerator my whole life. I wen...
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
Closing the barn door after the horse escapes
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This means we are still dealing with an active herpes outbreak, but all the animals in Barn 8 [the d...
GUY HOHENHAUS
A lot of that is going to a barn addition at the homestead.
BART HEIL
You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.
JAMES THURBER
Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun?
RICHELLE MEAD
The blip is getting brighter. We seem to be making progress.
JACK HUCKEL
The beech leaves surged and shimmered in the wind. Far below, a vixen paused to stare up, then melte...
LALINE PAULL
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE
The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.
G.K. CHESTERTON
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been sy...
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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The journey itself is my home.
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A frozen shadow.
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For a lovely bowl
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