Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
“He is keeping a candle burning in a shrine
where nobody comes,
there must be some mystery
in the air
about him.
I am almost afraid to think to myself,
why,
he is there.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Logic and hope fade somewhat by thirty-six, when endings seem more like clear warnings than useful experience.”
—Jane OReilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 2 (1980)
“The chartered recountants take the thing to pieces and put it together again. They enjoy it. The artist takes it to pieces and makes a new thing, new things. He must.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)