Deep Midnight

Famous quotes containing the words deep and/or midnight:

    What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.
    Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    And yet what good were yesterday’s devotions?
    I affirm and then at midnight the great cat
    Leaps quickly from the fireside and is gone.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)