Gate Village

Famous quotes containing the words gate and/or village:

“What heaven-entreated heart is this
Stands trembling at the gate of bliss;
Holds fast the door, yet dares not venture
Fairly to open it and enter?
Whose definition is a doubt
‘Twixt life and death, ‘twixt in and out?”
—Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)

“The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)