It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

Night is a world lit by itself. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” – Charles M. Schulz

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. – Frederick L. Knowles