Darkness

Famous quotes containing the word darkness:

“Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the ploughman in darkness plough?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“The fox, he felt, had never seen his past disposed of like a fall of water. He had never measured off his day in moments: another—another—another. But now, thrown down so deeply in himself, into the darkness of the well, surprised by pain and hunger, might he not revert to an earlier condition, regain capacities which formerly were useless to him, pass from animal to Henry, become human in his prison, X his days, count, wait, listen for another—another—another—another?”
—William Gass (b. 1924)

“A darkness out of Asia that had crossed
Old Attic grace and Spartan discipline
With violence.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)