Vent

Famous quotes containing the word vent:

“There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Enter Rumor, painted full of tongues.
Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing when loud Rumor speaks?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)