Real Closed Fields

Famous quotes containing the words real, closed and/or fields:

“But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man’s real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

“To the Ocean now I fly,
And those happy climes that ly
Where day never shuts his eye,
Up in the broad fields of the sky:”
—John Milton (1608–1674)