Closed Chamber Heads

Famous quotes containing the words closed, chamber and/or heads:

    “Pray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips,
    Think but one thought of me up in the stars.”
    —William Morris (1834–1896)

    “But it is the same thing we are all seeing,
    Our world. Go after it,
    Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick.
    Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again,
    Into the chamber behind the thought.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “I shall speak of ... how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another.... Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next.... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”
    —Günther Grass (b. 1927)