Quotations About / On: DARK

  • 41.
    Oh thumb,
    I want a drink
    it is dark,
    where are the big people,
    when will I get there...?
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Fury of Overshoes.")
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  • 42.
    Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.
    (W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. The Wanderer (l. 1). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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  • 43.
    Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 164, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 44.
    For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
    Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Sonnet 151 (1609).)
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  • 45.
    Of the dark past
    A child is born
    With joy and grief
    My heart is torn
    (James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish writer. Ecce Puer (l. 1-4). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 46.
    The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday—even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued ...
    (Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818-?), U.S. housewife. Wartime Washington, letter dated October 15, 1863 (1991). Born in Kentucky, Lee later lived in Maryland and in Washington, D.C., with her husband and child. Her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, was a Union naval commander in the Civil War.)
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  • 47.
    The street-lamps burn amidst the baleful glooms,
    Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
    Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
    (James Thomson (1834-1882), Irish poet ("B.V."; "Bysshe Vanolis"). The City of Dreadful Night (l. 1-6). . . Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 48.
    I towel my shaven jaw and stop, and stare,
    Riveted by a dark exhausted eye,
    A dry downturning mouth.
    (Thomas Kinsella (b. 1929), Irish poet. Mirror in February (l. 5-7). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 49.
    —All this Dark Age machinery
    On which we had tormented you
    To life.
    (William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926), U.S. poet. A Flat One (l. 49-51). . . Selected Poems, 1957-1987 [W.D. Snodgrass]. (1987) Soho Press.)
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  • 50.
    through the spaces of the dark
    Midnight shakes the memory
    As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. Rhapsody on a Windy Night (l. 10-12). . . Chief Modern Poets of Britain and America. Gerald DeWitt Sanders, John Herbert Nelson, and M. L. Rosenthal, eds. (5th ed., 1970) Macmillan Publishing Company.)
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