Quoted in The Grove:
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
~Samuel Johnson
For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.
~Mignon McLaughlin
I seldom went to bed before two or three o’clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.
~E B White
EndQuote:
It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
~Lemony Snicket
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Exercise Prompt for 07/12: nude
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren’t turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
~William Trogdon
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
~Philip K Dick
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
~Bernard Williams
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Posted from the Grove
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
~William Faulkner
The night goes dark, and we see ourselves in our own light.
~Terri Guillemets
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
~Poppy Z Brite
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark
~Isaac Bashevis Singer
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
~Alan Watts
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~Anna Goldfarb: A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping a Journal
A friend with benefits – your journal
https://forge.medium.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-a-journal-e8db9d0f150f
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~Jessica Wildfire: Use This Ancient Technique to Shut Down Any B.S. Artist
https://medium.com/the-post-grad-survival-guide/to-get-stuff-done-practice-the-jessica-jones-effect-412f60924959
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The longest way must have its close ̶ the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
The darker the night, the brighter the stars.
~Vasily Rozanov
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VIDEO:
Tonight I’ve watched
the moon and then
the Pleiades go down
The night is now
half-gone; youth goes;
I am in bed alone
~Sappho
The night is forever. I can’t sleep.
The clear moon is so bright, so bright.
I almost think I hear a voice call me,
and to the empty sky say, Yes?
~Zi Ye
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Fireworks for the Day After: The Best of Nagaoka Japan 2019 (33:18)
11 segments, each with its climax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWYKpwlVGso
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~Omeleto: Nacido de Nuevo (14:54) nightmare and redemption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyKGdsN-wRY
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~Dust: A Date in 2025 (12:51) after COVID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ8G3e3Cgl4&t=110s
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Shadow owes its birth to light.
~John Gay
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.
~Logan Pearsall Smith
My idea of a good night out is staying in.
~Martin Freeman
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~Oscar Wilde
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MUSIC:
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
~George Carlin
Sometimes on lonely nights the man in the moon is my best friend.
~Terri Guillemets
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~Chrome: Night By Night (3:49) high energy
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~David Bowie: Here Comes the Night (3:25) night camp
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~Rob Thomas: Now Comes The Night (3:19) the weight of loss
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The day has eyes; the night has ears.
~David Fergusson
At midnight tears
Run into your ears
~Louise Bogan
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
~F Scott Fitzgerald
Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.
~Author Unknown
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~The Airborne Toxic Event: Sometime Around Midnight (4:55) regrets
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~Enya: Only Time (3:35) coming to terms
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~Susie Arioli: Night and Day (4:51) gentled for sleep
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We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
~Mignon McLaughlin
There is something in the nature of silence which affects me deeply. Why it is I know not; but I do know that I love to be alone at such an hour as this. I love to forget the outward world and hold communion with the beings of the mind.
~Charles Lanman
Much poetry happens in the silence of 3AM.
~Terri Guillemets
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I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
~Liam Gallagher
Lord Kane beat me up,” one said with a grin. There was blood on his teeth. “Did you see? Best. Night. Ever.”
~Gena Showalter
“This is the best night of my life,” Raffy says, crying. “Raffy, half our House has burnt down,” I say wearily. “We don’t have a kitchen.” “Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?” she asks. “We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets.” Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.
~Melina Marchetta
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.”
~Charles M Schulz
Well…
I was walking in the night
And I saw nothing scary,
For I have never been afraid
Of anything. Not very.
~Dr Seuss
Fooey! The porchlight is burnt out, and I can’t see whether it’s dark outside or not.
~David J Beard
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At nightfall, colors disappear. Moon’s paintbrush has only a palette of shadows: creamy gray, inky black, illusive indigo.
~Dr SunWolf
Moonlight is sculpture.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.
~W Somerset Maugham
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
~Vincent Van Gogh
So dear night the half of life is,
And the fairest half indeed.
~Goethe
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
~Vincent Van Gogh
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@Writers Platform
By day the energies of our being are turned into artificial channels; by night our thoughts follow the bent that is most natural to them.
~George B Cheever
In day-time we investigate, but at night believe.
~Henry James Slack
By night, an atheist half believes in God.
~Edward Young
Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations.
~Robert Brault
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Exercise Prompt: night
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~BarTalk:
Temptation
No, she said
Just what she meant
Fireworks night
But not the firmament
Fidelity’s door opened
Love was headed out
Tease of sparkling lights
Not what this vow’s about
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endings
man, the germ that cannibalized home
a passing thought that came to naught
ruled by appetites of the priapic worm
switch turned on in a game One bought
know that the night will swallow again
bottomless appetite makes itself the prey
know that knowing was the original sin
firstborn night outlives the light of day
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progression
our days follow night
that precede the dark
that gives our longing
the unreachable stars
irrational rations
greed’s fodder fare
to feed the ‘mares
that fill our nights
arms of strength
forge a necklace
strangling beads
that war for more
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scanned horizon for a final chance
work to salvage to prove us worthy
reclaim the earth, earn the trophy
cease our savage mobius dance
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5-7-5-7-7 x 2
love’s hidden danger
beware the low lights of night
the moon and high stars
throw wishful-thinking shadows
dismiss the cautions of day
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love needs the low lights
fleece gauze of fuzzy blindness
blissed feelings at first
lest the ghost of past failures
rise to fright the present now
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5-7-5
pandemic fireworks
patriotic night gone bust
disbanded rainbow
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“Grinning, Cooper leaned over and kissed the top of my head. “I like your shampoo.”
“You’re being weird.”
“I’m just horny as hell. You were naked in the next room and I wanted you naked in here.”
“I’m not having sex with you.”
“Tonight,” he said with an exasperated sigh. “You keep forgetting to end your declarations with the word ‘tonight.’”
~Bijou Hunter
Night has brought to those who sleep,
only dreams they can not keep.
~Enya
There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
~Bob Dylan
I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could’ve been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.
~Alysia Harris
Stop writing
&
Just hug me
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For tonight,
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Let’s
Not
Be
Poets
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Let’s
Be
The
Poem
~Nitya Prakash
Night is longer than day for those who dream and day is longer than night for those who make their dreams come true. Good Night and Sweet Dreams.
~Unknown
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