Palace Lock Heart

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

    For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all;
    No palace too great, no cottage too small.
    Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)

    There warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summertime because it’s cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    swerving
    perfectly,
    the fierce, brilliant faith
    that pierces the heart all summer
    and sips bitter insects steeped in nectar ...
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)