Quotes About Night

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.

I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me.

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

I like my thingshurried and haunted. Night teadarktime. Sacred geometry, secret geometrypetal-flame whisper: I am here, and you aren't.

a generation:the black night gave me black eyesstill I use them to seek the light

Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

The warrior of the night is a wondrous soul.

The rangers of the night stay strangers in the eye of time.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

There is no place more perfectly lonely than an airport at night when you fear someone you love is dying and you're rushing to see that person.

The green jackets were the exclusive attire of the past champions of the Masters tournament. This was their one night of the year to wear them. And no one was allowed to take them home.

This cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night.