German Night Fighter

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

    “The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “Later you hear it wander the dark house
    Like a mother who rises at night to seek a childhood picture;
    Or it goes to the backyard and stands like an old horse cold in the
    pasture.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “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)