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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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O weary night, O long and tedious night,
Abate thy hours, shine comforts from the east.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Helena, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc. 2, l. 431-2.
"Abate" means cut short, abridge.)
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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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Night is juba, night is conjo.
Pretty Malinda, dance with me.
(Robert Earl Hayden (1913-1980), U.S. poet. O Daedalus, Fly Away Home (l. 4-5). . .
Collected Poems [Robert Hayden]. Frederick Glaysher, ed. (1985) Liveright.)
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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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Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning and the noontide night.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Brakenbury, in Richard III, act 1, sc. 4, l. 76-7.
Commenting on Clarence, whose terrible dream kept him awake all night.)
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