Famous quotes containing the words piece, exit and/or doors:
“The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of itthis cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.”
—Henry James (18431916)
“Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex,
Rex and principium, exit the whole
Shebang. Exeunt omnes. Here was prose
More exquisite than any tumbling verse:
A still new continent in which to dwell.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brothers, or his brothers brothers God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)