Dark House

Famous quotes containing the words dark house, dark and/or house:

“Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my heart was used to beat”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Spite of all the Indian-summer sunlight on the hither side of Hawthorne’s soul, the other side—like the dark half of the physical sphere—is shrouded in a blackness, ten times black.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“A serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognised, and robed as destinies,
And that much never can be obsolete,”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)