Parlor Walls

Famous quotes containing the words parlor and/or walls:

    “Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “a child who traced voyages
    indelibly all over the atlas, who now in a far country
    remembers the first river, the first
    field, bricks and lumber dumped in it ready for building,
    that new smell, and remembers
    the walls of the garden, the first light.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)