"Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass."

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Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#Glasses Quotes #Silence Quotes #Hours Quotes

“The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.”
“I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.”
“Paris is not so square. I'm not good at the geography of the city in Paris, so I'm always lost. Here, in New York, you can never be lost. In Paris, even when I walk to my gallery or whatever, I always take another route, because Paris is not built that way.”

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“It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.”
“Insanity makes the rivers flow.”
“We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.”
“I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.201, Univ of California Press
“It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.”

Source : Dirk Bogarde (2014). “A Postillion Struck by Lightning”, p.171, A&C Black

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