"I shall be a benefactor, if I conquer some realms from the night, if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep, if I add to the domains of poetry."

"What if one moon has come and gone, with its world of poetry, its weird teachings, its oracular suggestions,so divine a creature freighted with hints for me, and I have not used her,one moon gone by unnoticed?"

"Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn? To what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring."

"In night let me abroad remain , till morning breaks, and all's confused again."

-Henry D. Thoreau