Midnight
Midnight is the transition time period from one day to the next: the moment when the date changes. In the Roman time system, midnight was halfway between sunset and sunrise, varying according to the seasons.
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Famous quotes containing the word midnight:
“Hell in a horn of sulphur and the cloven myth,
All heaven in a midnight of the sun,
A serpent fiddled in the shaping-time.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“And yet what good were yesterdays devotions?
I affirm and then at midnight the great cat
Leaps quickly from the fireside and is gone.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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