Blind Cave

Famous quotes containing the words blind and/or cave:

    But he though blind of sight,
    Despis’d and thought extinguish’t quite,
    With inward eyes illuminated
    His fierie vertue rouz’d
    From under ashes into sudden flame,
    And as an ev’ning Dragon came,
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)