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Letter "M" » midnight
«He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
East, East Is East, East of, in the north, midnight, noon, North, North A, North and South, North by, North West, song, South, South West, Sunday, To South, to the north, to the south, week, West, working
«Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.»
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
dancers, delights, drinkers, loose, midnight, orgies, share, The Midnight
«Hence loath?d Melancholy, / Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born.»
«I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Peace
| Keywords:
brotherhood, daybreak, midnight, racism, The View, tragically
«In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight»
«I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Americanism, apprenticeship, Economy of, mastery, midnight, phrenology, raps, shallow, tables
«How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! What is't you do? A deed without a name»
«I at midnight by the clock may creep into your bed.»
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