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Stevie Smith, Selected Poems Quotes: Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.
         

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.


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Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.
         



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This page presents the quote "Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.". Author of this quote is Stevie Smith, Selected Poems. This quote is about shyness, friendship, social-anxiety, society,.