Night Quotations: A Miscellany

Night is the time of night creatures: peepers to croakers, lightning bugs to the bugs that call kids back to school, owls all year. Night is the ballroom of constellations, Orion to Cygnus and back, the Dipper calling steps. What else happens, and where?

The last of the light of the sun That had died in the west Still lived for one song more In a thrush’s breast.