Famous quotes containing the word windows:
“The house of my body has spoken
often as you rebuild me like blocks,
and promise to come visit
when Im finally adjusted on safe land,
and am livable, joist to joist
with storm windows and screens ...”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half concealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“this frenzy,
like bees stinging the heart all morning,
will keep the angels
with their windows open,
wide as an English bathtub.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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