Crossing Gates

Famous quotes containing the words crossing and/or gates:

“Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Go through the gates with closed eyes.
Stand erect and let your black face front the west.”
—Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)