Closing Night Pranks

Famous quotes containing the words closing night, closing, night and/or pranks:

    And if the stage-dark head rehearse
    The fifth act of the closing night,
    Why, cut it off, piece after piece,
    And throw the tough cortex away....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    At closing time would go
    In waders and peaked cap
    Into the showery dark,
    A dole-kept breadwinner
    But a natural for work.
    Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
    Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

    Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)