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Famous quotes containing the word close:

    The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    And then I know of no better way
    To close a road, abandon a farm,
    Reduce the births of the human race,
    And bring back nature in people’s place.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I close my eyes over the steaming
    tea and see God opening His teeth.
    “Oh,” He says.
    I see the child in me writing, “Oh.”
    Oh, my dear, not why.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)