The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep. – Rumi

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose. – Sir Thomas Browne

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge