Narrow

Famous quotes containing the word narrow:

“A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that’s good, and all that’s fair!”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

“We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,—a narrow belt.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)