Angels

Famous quotes containing the word angels:

    Great is the art,
    Great be the manners, of the bard.
    He shall not his brain encumber
    With the coil of rhythm and number;
    But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
    He shall aye climb
    For his rhyme.
    “Pass in, pass in,” the angels say,
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The angels yawning in an empty heaven;
    Alternate shows of dynamite and rain;
    And choosing forced on free will: fire or ice.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)