Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
One Way of Living, alluding to his play Marriage is no Joke 1939
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet.”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Visions of Johanna
Source: Lyrics: 1962-2001
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
"All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" (first published in Harper's Weekly on November 30, 1861 under the title The Picket Guard).
I Still Miss Someone, written by Johnny Cash and Roy Cash
Song lyrics, The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958)
"The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm"
Transport to Summer (1947)
Context: The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader leaned above the page,
Wanted to lean, wanted much most to be
The scholar to whom the book is true, to whom
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The house was quiet because it had to be.
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.
And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself
Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there.
“There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”
Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole
