Quotes About Night

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

ALBA from "Langue d'Oc" When the nightingale to his mate Sings day-long and night late My love and I keep state In bower, In flower, 'Till the watchman on the tower Cry: "Up! Thou rascal, Rise, I see the white Light And the night Flies.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights are like the night there. I have looked down across the city from high windows. It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on their magical powers. They are immaterial; that is to say, one sees but the lighted windows. Squares after squares of flame, set and cut into the Aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

As a vamp killer for hire, I travel light.

David had once told me that there was no sky as totally black as the African sky, where the stars hung so low that one could almost reach out to pluck them from the heavens. [270]

Are you gonna be my date tonight, or what?" A night of good food, jazz music, and the chance to see Tiana again? Naveen gave her his best smile. "What time to do we leave?

solo last night. A busboy flagged down my cruiser when he heard the crying," I said. "I was thinking about doing a door-to-door search for her mother

Llena, pues, de palabras mi locura o déjame vivir en mi serena noche del alma para siempre oscura.

Julieta, la noche no es un momento, pero un momento puede durar toda la noche.

Gelmek istemiyor gece.. Ne sen gelebiliyorsun o yüzden Ne de ben gidebiliyorum. Ama ben gideceÄŸim. Akrepten bir güneÅŸ ÅŸaka??m? yese de... Ama sen geleceksin. Dilin tuzlu yaÄŸmurlarca yak?lm?? olsa da...

You can't look at yourself in the ocean. Your looks fall apart like tendrils of light. Night on earth. - The Great Sadness

El corazón Que tenía en la escuela Donde estuvo pintada La cartilla primera ¿Está en ti Noche negra Frío frío Como el agua Del río. El primer beso Que supo a beso y fue Para mis labios niños Como la lluvia fresca ¿Está en ti Noche negra

When the moon sails out with a hundred faces all the same, the coins made of silver break out in sobs in the pocket.

La noche no quiere venir para que tu no vengas, ni yo pueda ir. Pero yo iré, aunque un sol de alacranes me coma la sien. Pero tu vendrás con la lengua quemada por la lluvia de sal. El día no quiere venir para que tu no vengas, ni yo pueda ir. Pero yo iré entregando a los sapos mi mordido clavel. Pero tu vendrás por las turbias cloacas de la oscuridad. Ni la noche ni el día quieren venir para que por ti muera y tú mueras por mí.

Before the Dawn" But like love the archers are blind Upon the green night, the piercing saetas leave traces of warm lily. The keel of the moon breaks through purple clouds and their quivers fill with dew. Ay, but like love the archers are blind!

Bajo el agua siguen las palabras. Sobre el agua una luna redonda se baña, dando envidia a la otra ¡tan alta! En la orilla, un niño, ve las lunas y dice: ¡Noche, toca los platillos!

Ella viene vestida Con un traje de alcaldesa, De papel de chocolate con los collares de almendras. She comes dressed In the robe of a Mayoress Made of chocolate paper with an almond necklace. El viento vuleve desnudo la esquina de la sorpresa, en la noche platinoche, noche que noche nochera. Naked, the wind turns the corner of the surprise in the silver-dark night the night benighted by nightfall.

Los relojes llevan la misma cadencia, Y las noches tienen las mismas estrellas.)

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. epigraph in Night Boat to Tangier

Sobre el rostro del aljibe se mecía la gitana. Verde carne, pelo verde, con ojos de fría plata. Un carámbano de luna la sostiene sobre el agua. La noche se puso íntima como una pequeña plaza. Over the mouth of the cistern the gypsy girl was swinging, green flesh, her hair green, with eyes of cold silver. An icicle of moon holds her up above the water. The night became intimate like a little plaza.

El silencio redondo de la noche sobre el pentágrama del infinito.

THE POOL Horned owl Stops his meditations, cleans his glasses, sighs. A firefly spins downhill & a star slides by. Old owl shaked his wings, takes up his meditations.

The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The blackness riddled by the singing of crickets: sound, that dead will-o'-the-wisp, that musical light perceived by the spirit. A thousand butterfly skeletons sleep within my walls. A wild crowd of young breezes over the river. - Hour of Stars (1920)