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)

    “and wife or husband
    who does not lock the door of the marriage
    against you, finds you
    not as unwelcome third in the room, but as
    the light of the moon on flesh and hair.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “The soldier’s is the trade:
    In any wind or weather
    He steals the heart of maid
    And man together.

    The lover and his lass
    Beneath the hawthorn lying,”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)