Palace Lock Heart

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

    “The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

    “My own heart let me more have pity on; let
    Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
    Charitable; not live this tormented mind
    With this tormented mind tormenting
    yet.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)