Palace Lock Heart

Famous quotes containing the words palace, lock and/or heart:

“In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“then take off your flesh,
unpick the lock of your bones.
In other words
take off the wall
that separates you from God.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Spring is here.
Why doesn’t my heart go dancing?”
—Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)