“Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!”
To Sleep (A Flock of Sheep), l. 13 (1806).
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“Soldier, there is a war between the mind
And sky, between thought and day and night.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Context: Soldier, there is a war between the mind
And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room
To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
Up down. It is a war that never ends.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Source: Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825), p. 64
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]
“Sometimes a day is a step mother, sometimes a mother.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 825.
Rahm Emanuel (1959) politician, investment banker, White House Chief of Staff
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