Prison/history

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or history:

“This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
Once he lived a schoolmaster
With a stark, denying look....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)