Famous quotes containing the words open and/or defence:
“Before I am lost,
hell must open like a red rose
for the dead to pass.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)