Source: Infinite Jest
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
Variant: In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
Source: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
“For out of black
soul's night have stirred
dawn's cold gleam,
morning's singing bird.”
"Black Flag" in Collected Poems (1983)
Context: For out of black
soul's night have stirred
dawn's cold gleam,
morning's singing bird. Let black day die,
let black flag fall,
let raven call,
let new day dawn
of black reborn.
“There never was night that had no morn.”
"The Golden Gate", Mulock's Poems, New and Old (1888), this has sometimes been misquoted as There was never a night that had no morn.
Source: Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805), Auguries of Innocence, Line 123
Source: Songs of Experience
“It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.”
“To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights,
What must the Midnights — be!”
1095: To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights,
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
