Cast Iron Dome

Famous quotes containing the words cast, iron and/or dome:

    “All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Already the iron door of the north
    Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows
    Order their populations forth,
    And a cruel wind blows.”
    —Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (b. 1905)

    “Drab Habitation of Whom?
    Tabernacle or Tomb—
    Or Dome of Worm—
    Or Porch of Gnome—
    Or some Elf’s Catacomb?”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)