Midnight

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 (1914–1953)

    “The contest ends at midnight tonight
    But you can submit again, and again.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “at mothy curfew-tide,
    And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and leads,
    They’ve a way of whispering to me—fellow-wight who yet
    abide—”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)