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Famous quotes containing the word close:

“There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls,
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

““We, we children, why our lives are circumscribed, circumferential;
Close, too close to the center....””
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time’s noblest offspring is the last.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)