Alternate Nights Performance

Famous quotes containing the words alternate, nights and/or performance:

    “Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “They dance between their arclamps and our skull,
    Impose their shots, showing the nights away....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Kind are her answers,
    But her performance keeps no day;
    Breaks time, as dancers,
    From their own music when they stray.”
    —Thomas Campion (1567–1620)