Narrow

Famous quotes containing the word narrow:

    For Occupation—This—
    The spreading wide my narrow Hands
    To gather Paradise—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 7:14.

    From the Sermon on the Mount.

    because your clamorous blood
    Beats an impermanent rest
    You think the dead arise
    Westward and fabulous:
    The dead are those whose lies
    Were doors to a narrow house.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)