Famous quotes containing the words merton and/or place:
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody elses imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
—Thomas Merton (19151968)
“You are as still as a yardstick. You have a dolls kiss.
The brain whirls in a fit. The brain is not evident.
I have gone to that same place without a germ or a stroke.
A little solo act that lady with the brain that broke.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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