Palace Lock Heart

Famous quotes containing the words palace, lock and/or heart:

    “How the Chimney-sweepers cry
    Every blackning Church appalls,
    And the hapless Soldiers sigh
    Runs in blood down Palace walls”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “They lock me in this chair at eight a.m.
    and there are no signs to tell the way,
    just the radio beating to itself
    and the song that remembers
    more than I.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body
    Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,
    Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,
    And known to captains as esprit de corps.”
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)