"In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time." ~Somerset Maugham
"The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand." ~Frederick L. Knowles
"No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky." ~Llewelyn Powys, quoted in Highs by Alex J. Packer
"That orbed maiden, with white fire laden; whom mortals call the moon." ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cloud