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O grim-looked night, O night with hue so black,
O night which ever art when day is not!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, sc. 1, l. 170-1.
As Pyramus, addressing the night.)
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Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing night!
Night of south winds! night of the large few stars!
Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of Myself," sct. 21, Leaves of Grass (1855).)
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Saturday night was for wives, but Friday night at the Copa was always for the girlfriends.
(Nicholas Pileggi, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), GoodFellas, voiceover as gangsters and girlfriends take in the show at the Copacabana (1990).)
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As long as skies are blue, and fields are green
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. Adonais (Fr. XXI). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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The last Night that She lived
It was a Common Night
Except the Dying—this to Us
Made Nature different
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The last Night that She lived (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
(Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, October 18, 1917. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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The wind blew all my wedding-day,
And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Wedding-Wind.")
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Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.
(Sammy Cahn (1913-1993), U.S. songwriter. song title, Barton Music Corp. (1944).
Music composed by Jule Styne (1905-1993).)
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