German Night Fighter

Famous quotes containing the words german, night and/or fighter:

    “A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”
    —José Bergamín (1895–1983)

    “Were I laid on Greenland’s Coast,
    And in my Arms embrac’d my Lass;
    Warm amidst eternal Frost,
    Too soon the Half Year’s Night would pass.”
    —John Gay (1685–1732)

    “A pleasant smell of frying sausages
    Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible
    Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around
    An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)