"Silent Night" (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol, composed 1818 in Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO in March 2011.
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Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or night:
“Where the statue stood
Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
““Man’s incurable loneliness” is tolerable. But nowhere to go on a Saturday night is not.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)