Crossing Gates

Famous quotes containing the words crossing and/or gates:

    “Twenty men crossing a bridge,
    Into a village,
    Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
    Into twenty villages,
    Or one man
    Crossing a single bridge into a village.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
    A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
    Mother of exiles.”
    —Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)