Courtyard Houses

Famous quotes containing the words courtyard and/or houses:

“A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.”
—Chinese proverb.

“And the Harvard students in the brick
hallowed houses studied Sappho in cement rooms.
And this Sappho danced on the grass
and danced and danced and danced.
It was a death dance.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)