Famous quotes containing the words degree, heart and/or block:
“A certain degree of miserey [sic] seems inseparable from a high degree of populousness.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“I that loved and you that liked, shall we begin to wrangle?
No, no, no, my heart is fast, and cannot disentangle.”
—Unknown. Since First I Saw Your Face (l. 3–4)
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand—a center of gravity.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)