I observe: "Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John's balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor travellers to their distress."
 Since then: "How you digress!"

And I then: "Someone frames upon the keys
That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our own vacuity." Since then: "Does this refer to me?"
    "Oh no, it is I who am inane."

"You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!
With your air indifferent and imperious
    At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--; And--"Are we then so serious?"
 
 

From T.S. Eliot. The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot. Boston: Faber, 1969.