Night Blindness

Famous quotes containing the words night and/or blindness:

    “All day long and all night through,
    One thing only must I do:
    Quench my pride and cool my blood,
    Lest I perish in the flood.”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “the heart,
    this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
    this ultimate signature of the me, the start
    of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)