And so to bed...

Another of my regular collections of bed-time quotes, but with pictures of the authors added.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Judith Fertig:

At Rainbow Cake, January's special flavors would be dark chocolate and coffee, those pick-me-ups we all needed to start the day- or a new year. To me, their toasty-toasty flavors said that even if you only had a mere handful of beans and your life went up in flames, you could still create something wonderful.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Merrill Moore:

Silence can always be broken by the sound

Of footsteps walking over frozen ground
In winter when the melancholy trees
Stand abject and let their branches freeze


And so to bed... quote for tonight is from William Shakespeare:

When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.
All may be well; but, if God sort it so,
'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Susan Cooper:

Half the sky was thick and dreadful with the silent raging of the Dark and its whirling tornado power; but now riding down towards it, out of the west with the speed of dropping stones, came Herne and the Wild Hunt. At the peak of their power now, in full cry, they came roaring out of the great dark thundercloud, through streaking lightning and grey-purple clouds, riding on the storm.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from William Ernest Henley:

The smoke ascends
In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires
Shine, and are changed. In the valley
Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun,
Closing his benediction,
Sinks, and the darkening air
Thrills with a sense of the triumphing night -
Night, with her train of stars
And her great gift of sleep.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from F.T. McKinstry:

Wolf Star shines on wintry high;
Gazing northward by and by.
Ice and snow on shorelines lie;
Wind and spirits haunt the sky.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from John V Taylor:

Through this bat-light you will learn
dark to discern from deeper dark,
to mark the chipped rim of the fells
as the sky pales, and spy the track
black across gossamer fields, and see
hayrick and tree announce themselves,
silvers and shadows separate
and so create the world anew.