Proper Closed Subset

Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or closed:

    “My maiden Isabel,
    Reflaring rosabel.
    The fragrant camomel;
    The ruddy rosary,
    The sovereign rosemary,
    The pretty strawberry;
    The columbine, the nept,
    The jelofer well set,
    The proper violet:”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    “We are closed in, and the key is turned
    On our uncertainty;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)