nightWhen QUOTES

1 " In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art. "

― Dylan Thomas

2 " Because at night
when others are sleeping,
I drown myself
in poetry. "

― Kamand Kojouri

3 " The Sleeping

I have imagined all this:
In 1940 my parents were in love
And living in the loft on West 10th
Above Mark Rothko who painted cabbage roses
On their bedroom walls the night they got married.

I can guess why he did it.
My mother’s hair was the color of yellow apples
And she wore a velvet hat with her pajamas.

I was not born yet. I was remote as starlight.
It is hard for me to imagine that
My parents made love in a roomful of roses
And I wasn’t there.

But now I am. My mother is blushing.
This is the wonderful thing about art.
It can bring back the dead. It can wake the sleeping
As it might have late that night
When my father and mother made love above Rothko
Who lay in the dark thinking Roses, Roses, Roses. "

― Lynn Emanuel ,

4 " I grow weary of the love
That lasts for a night
When it should be there
The next sunrise "

― Irum Zahra , Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black

5 " I do not fear the night
When I know that today
I am bathed in a light
It cannot be stolen away "

― Holly Ducarte , Hiding Bones: The Best Poetry of Hiding Skeletons & Literary Bones