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“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”
“A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.”
“Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night!Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!from Strophe 21, "Song of...”
“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”
“By night, I am free. No one hears my monsters but me. My freedom is fragile, though, Because every morning, Over and over, The night is broken by the sun. Its a good way to die.”
“O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,with peace you force all the restless work to end;those who exalt you see and understand,and he is sound of mind who honours you.You cut the thread of ...”
“Again and again, the cicadas untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.”
“Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.”
“The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remember...”
“Tonights going to be one of those things that seem to last forever.”
“The night has a thousand eyesAnd the day but oneYet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun.”
“Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, you could see it swirling wildly through the spotlights of street lamps. It was the kind of night ...”
“Moonlight knew no colors and traced the contours of the terrain only very softly. It covered the land a dirty gray, strangling life all night long. This world molded in lead, where nothing moved bu...”
“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.”
“Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widowed me and murdered me and resurrected me whole a thousand times over with each hour.”
“Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days! ~”
“I ran from them. Nights, yellow lights scoured sand. What was ever found but women in skirts folded around the men they loved that Friday? No one found me. And how could that have been, here, where...”
“It wasn't night, it was simply darkness, with me in the middle hoping all the while that time was carrying on flowing, that something would crop up, me all alone in the middle, with my veins and my...”
“A man who is awake in the open field at night or who wanders over silent paths experiences the world differently than by day. Nighness vanishes, and with it distance; everything is equally far and ...”
“Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.”
