Passive Night Vision

Famous quotes containing the words passive, night and/or vision:

    “To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
    —Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)

    “As night returns bringing doubts
    That swarm around the sleeper’s head
    But are fended off with clubs and knives ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Redeem
    The time. Redeem.
    The unread vision in the higher dream
    While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)