Escaped Prison Fourteen

Famous quotes containing the words escaped, prison and/or fourteen:

    “an escaped note of
    almost unbearable
    satisfaction, a great
    bough or beam
    unaware it had
    spoken.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “This great purple butterfly,
    In the prison of my hands,
    Has a learning in his eye
    Not a poor fool understands.
    Once he lived a schoolmaster
    With a stark, denying look....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Those holy fields,
    Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
    Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed
    For our advantage on the bitter cross.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)