Alternate Nights

Famous quotes containing the words alternate and/or nights:

“I alternate treading water
and deadman’s float.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“And the sun and the stove and the mice and the gnawed paper
Made up the days and nights when I missed supper,
Paring my nails, looking over the farbelow street
Of tramways and bells. But one night I heard the feet.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)