Famous quotes containing the words dark night, dark and/or night:
“Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
The ear more quick of apprehension makes;
Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense
It pays the hearing double recompense.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
““A young man in the dark am I
But a wild old man in the light
That can make a cat laugh, or
Can touch by mother wit
Things hid in their marrow bones
From time long passed away....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“All night long the darling daughter squirms
Wild where the Toddle and the Shimmy vie
In making passion virtuous and correct....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)