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Night
when words fade and things come alive.
When the destructive analysis of day is done, and
all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.
When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Overlooking Washington Square Park, New York, United States
Brazil
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh
Los Angeles, United States
Umbria, Italy
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents and silently steal away
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cambodia
Fiji
Tibet
Hong Kong
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight
has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hong Kong
New York, United States
Mumbai, India
Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!
Lord Byron
India
To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book
Rambagh Palace Hotel, Jaipur, India
Agra, India
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven,
and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grand Central Terminal, New York, United States
What hath night to do with sleep?
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Japan
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it,
for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man,
there vanishes as well a religious emotion,
a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
Henry Beston
India
Burma
Mali
Italy
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
Frederick L. Knowles
Slovenia
Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.
Robert W. Service