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Night Poetry Quotes & Sayings

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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! — Avijeet Das

After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,
Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own. — Marina Tsvetaeva

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. — Carl Sandburg

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. — Dejan Stojanovic

The night is still waiting. — Dejan Stojanovic

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke. — Dejan Stojanovic

when I finally begin to drift
into sleep
your memory is the...first
and the moonlight
the last, to kiss my face. — Sanober Khan

We walked through night until there was a poem. — Brenda Hillman

I dream like a dew drop in the night
Then glitter in the morning sunlight
Then it evaporates to embrace the sky — Debasish Mridha

Calico Kitty

My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. — Sarah Williams

I believe the night I've never met
hides one elusive star I need
to divide me between darkness and light — Munia Khan

Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road
late at night. — Kim Addonizio

i am like the moon--
sometimes, full.
sometimes, black.

sometimes,
forever and ever alone. — AVA.

a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light — Gu Cheng

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear. — Sylvia Plath

Under the Sun of the night. The Sun in winter is addictive. And at night like it is. To be in the forest and wait for a rain of sighs. — Gwen Calvo

Paint in blue and black ... sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... — John Geddes

The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer still hungry for more. — Bob Miller

Because
you rubbed
my shoulder
last night
a poem
traveled down
my arm. — Alice Walker

It's miraculous how you are prose by day, and poetry by night. — Madhu

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born. — Ikkyu

The stars will live for me, if not anything else — Munia Khan

Life without love
Is as night without day — Ilchi Lee

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. — Drew Myron

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. — Rupert Brooke

Crystal ball and candle light, I want your dance tonight. Show me the power of love as we stand together in the middle of the night. — Santosh Kalwar

Had I known, I would not have left you,
alone beneath those stars,
on the night when I last saw you,
not knowing it was the last. — Lang Leav

Some have won a wild delight,
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I'd hazard death to-morrow. — Charlotte Bronte

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night ... — John Geddes

Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,
you have vines and stars in your hair, — Pablo Neruda

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When my desire
grows too fierce
I wear my bed clothes
inside out,
dark as the night's rough husk. — Ono No Komachi

For my sustenance at night,
the whole that my hands can glean
from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks
the herbs and the plenteous fruits ... — Flann O'Brien

I am the eye that beholds ... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky ... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love. — Solange Nicole

The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. — Chet Raymo

My dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's my lucid dream of being with you ... — John Geddes

A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream. — Dejan Stojanovic

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night. — John Donne

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before. — Monroe Ariel

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church ... — John Geddes

At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete. — Kamand Kojouri

the sapphire depth
of my own love...startles
and warms
and wounds my soul. — Sanober Khan

Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes. — Sanober Khan

I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night ... — John Geddes

A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night. — Leonard Cohen

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. — Walt Whitman

I don't love her anymore
So
Why should I walk
Nights
By the tavern
Where I drank
Every night
Thinking of her? — Orhan Veli Kanik

Night never needs a shade
but it requires to fade
into the grin of twinkling stars
where light is just a glint of scars — Munia Khan

Love crosses the sky on a peculiar disturbing night. — Shannon A. Thompson

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness — Pablo Neruda

Oh, the summer night / HAS A SMILE OF LIGHT / And she sits on a sapphire throne. — Barry Cornwall

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light. — Garth Von Buchholz

Loving you is kissing the night, exposing the scars, words in flames, for every drop and for every life. — Gwen Calvo

Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst. — Sanober Khan

I can't sleep alone anymore
and I get used to
company
too quickly. You're always gone too soon. — Charlotte Eriksson

let me die
from having being drunk on
indigo skies, my liver...
overflowing with stars. — Sanober Khan

We keep asking where they have gone
those years we remember and we
reach for them like hands in the night — W.S. Merwin

Poetry's packaged as a late-night slot, a quote minority taste unquote, like water-skiing or goat-fucking or something. — Julian Barnes

IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON. — Amy King

You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night. — Monroe Ariel

Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep? — Galway Kinnell

She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. — Mahmoud Darwish

And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other. — Danabelle Gutierrez

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide. — Steve Winwood

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight — Philippa Gregory

Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway? — Clark Ashton Smith

Will the day tell its secret
Before it disappears,
Becomes timeless night. — Dejan Stojanovic

Love did not die. I still create your image to my heart every solitary night. — Chrissy Moon

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out. — Andrea Gibson

I think of New York City lost in stars
forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love
Tonight the night is full; — Gregory Corso

Dark is the world's night without you my love, — Pablo Neruda

concept: we whisper little kindnesses into the night, sending out love to no one in particular and everyone at once. — L.J. Buchanan

Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ... — Brandi L. Bates

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown ... — Henry Miller

a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read. — Sanober Khan

I cast my eyes out to the sea
And gaze at all eternity.
until forever turns to night.
My eyes then lift to catch starlight. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain — Aeschylus

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. — Aberjhani

I wake, the lump of last night
hiking a trail through my throat.

[from "Those Who Love Raptors"] — Alina Stefanescu

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. — Grace Paley

The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky ... — John Geddes

savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream. — Sanober Khan

A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds. — Moonshine Noire

After a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. — Wallace Stevens

And all the hurts and scars / Of everyday were healed, and I would sleep / Safe with the good-night memory of stars. — Jane Merchant

I wonder at the starry pattern in the sky
Are they little pieces of moon which want to fly..? — Munia Khan

Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night. — Rosabetty Munoz

I grow weary of the love
That lasts for a night
When it should be there
The next sunrise — Irum Zahra

Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die — Leonard Cohen

Twas the night before Thanksgiving.
All the food's in the oven.
And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'. — Craig Ferguson

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night. — Dejan Stojanovic

And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night — Archibald MacLeish

Summer night
even the stars
are whispering to each other. — Kobayashi Issa

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you. — Billy Collins