Closes

Famous quotes containing the word closes:

“Although glad for the grain, we are
Aware of the husk.
And winter closes on us like a shroud.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“It may be a mercy the dark closes round us
So broodingly soon in every direction.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)