Christmas Quote by Allen Tate

“In Man's heart is a little room. He has named it Oblivion. And things are ranged along its walls That he does not wish…

— Opal Whiteley

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles…

— Washington Irving

“Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy—and end up lost themselves. The flame within them gets dim with the…

— Neal Stephenson

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left…

— Julia Ward Howe

Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its…

— William Morris

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost…

— John Milton

“Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a moan- to…

— Khaled Hosseini

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for awhile, then closes Within a…

— Ernest Dowson

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked…

— Robert Frost

“I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air — I…

— Alan Seeger

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

— Charles Dickens