Threshold/literature

Famous quotes containing the words threshold and/or literature:

“We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.”
—J.A. (José Antonio)

“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)