Closing time Quote by John Collier

“Must embrace the fate of that dark hour”

— William Shakespeare

“Time was his servant, too; it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me, like a…

— Angela Carter

“I’ve had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one’s very door or perhaps in one’s very bed. I’m still…

— Gérard de Nerval

“Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The poet had wasted his night while others had spent it enjoying themselves and now he realised that it was lost forever. He only…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get…

— Helen Garner

“One may not reach the dawn by the path of the night. ”

— Kahlil Gibran

“The Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end.”

— Jennifer Worth

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene

“The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how long the…

— Janet Fitch

“Night Watch Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling Through the unsettled stillness of the night He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling…

— Vikram Seth