Bars Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I realized that I had been living a great part of my life like an ostrich, with my head stuck in the sand. Now…

— James Wasserman

The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be…

— Edgar Lee Masters

We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our fondest memories…

— John Ashbery

“Have you fallen into the prison of dreams? Then you are very lucky; stay inside for a while, in normal prisons your body and…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

— Rumi

“The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that…

— Emily Brontë

“Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth, Dazed with the tall and echoing passages, The swift recoils, so many I almost feared I’d…

— Edwin Muir

After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons…

— Henry Rollins

Prison house for the soul

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow,…

— Anthony Burgess

“After chopping off all the arms that reached out to me; after boarding up all the windows and doors; after filling all the pits…

— Octavio Paz

“At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison. I…

— Edgar Allan Poe