Courtyard Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one… — Rumi
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of… — Diane di Prima
No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which… — Tadao Ando
Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the… — Joseph Conrad
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way. — Alexander McCall Smith
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a… — Donald Judd
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and… — Ezra Pound
Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer… — Gabriela Mistral
There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day. — Yann Martel
You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of… — Charles Kuralt
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most… — Alan Rickman
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast… — Bram Stoker
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was… — Anne Rice
Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood… — Charles Dickens
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so… — Mark Helprin
The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their… — Rick Riordan
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men… — Robert E. Howard
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. — Milan Kundera

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