Ancient Quote by George Sterling

Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its…

— William Morris

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the…

— Conrad Aiken

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love…

— Mark Strand

If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“To-night, as ages hence, people would say this, or shut their doors on them, turn in bereaved agony from them, or toward them with…

— Malcolm Lowry

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and…

— Jack Kerouac

“The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one…

— Matthew Stover

“But there was a time when light waged a heroic battle with darkness. It was a time when night skies were not bleached by…

— Bruce Watson

“When the tremulous radiance of a summer night fills with twinkling stars and the moon itself is full, I am slowly drawn into a…

— Immanuel Kant

But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return?…

— Oscar Wilde