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The night is so thick she can tell she is there only by the scraping of her feet and the tap, tapping of the stick in the loose gravel. A moonless night with only the call of the katydids and marsh frogs. A night to swallow you up, the stars hid by clouds, and memory guiding her tired feet home.
Gloria Naylor • Mama Day
Night-time is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything;
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
In the utter darkness
Of a moonless night
A powerful wind embraces
— Bashō
The Dark Night of the Soul (St John Of the Cross)
On a dark night,
Kindled in love with yearnings–oh, happy chance!–
I went forth without being observed,
My house being now at rest.
In darkness and secure,
By the secret ladder, disguised–oh, happy chance!–
In darkness and in concealment,
My house being now at rest.
In the happy night,
In secret, when none
Night came, settling with the heat, and cast some things in stark relief and others into shadow. The world was saturated with regret and consolation, people and things that went before.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso in qualche invisibile altrove dell’anima.
