Saint Thomas Middle

Famous quotes containing the words saint, thomas and/or middle:

    “A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement—in a word, with more renunciation than you care for—and so you flee the contagion.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas
    If I take to burn or return this world which is each man’s work.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Everything comes to him
    From the middle of his field. The odor
    Of earth penetrates more deeply than any word.
    There he touches his being. There as he is
    He is.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)