Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or night:
“And a dark shift within the bone
Brings him the end he could not find.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)