Famous quotes containing the word close:
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“O father! O father! now, now, keep your hold,
The Erl-King has seized mehis grasp is so cold!
Sore trembled the father; he spurrd thro the wild,
Clasping close to his bosom his shuddering child;
He reaches his dwelling in doubt and in dread,
But, claspd to his bosom, the infant was dead.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17991832)
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