Crossing Gates

Famous quotes containing the words crossing and/or gates:

    “Bodhidharma sailing the Yangtze on a reed
    Lenin in a sealed train through Germany
    Hsuan Tsang, crossing the Pamirs
    Joseph, Crazy Horse, living the last free
    starving high-country winter of their tribes.
    Surrender into freedom revolt into slavery—”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)