Cages Quote by Ted Hughes Download Open image “The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.” — Ted Hughes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cages Heels Horizon Long Thrust Trust World
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on,… — Elyne Mitchell Copy Share Image
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Having descended beneath it all, He is perfectly positioned to lift us. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body,… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat. The convenience of the high trees! The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray Are of advantage to me; And the earth's face upward for my inspection. My feet are locked… — Ted Hughes Copy Share
Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe. It is… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“I had let it all grow. I had supposed It was all OK. Your life Was a liner I voyaged in. Costly education had fitted you out. Financiers and committees and consultants Effaced themselves in the gleam of your finish. You trembled with the new life of those engines. That first morning, Before your first class at College, you sat… — Ted Hughes Copy Share
He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention. — Ted Hughes Copy Share
“If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?" The dragon was silent for a long time after this question. And at last he said: "It just came over me. I don't know why. It just came over me, listening to the battling shouts and the war-cries of the earth - I got… — Ted Hughes Copy Share
Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it… — Sarah Wylie Copy Share Image
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings… — Michael Elmore-Meegan Copy Share Image
“And then a strange thing happened. Out of the diseased and deteriorated pool os tired thoughts came life. A simple and poisoned life, but a life nonetheless. Death cultivated tis bacteria with love and attention. It thived in its stifling, hopeless world, sapping Death os all its energy, but Death didn't notice, for all its attention went on the fracturing,… — Dave McKean Copy Share
There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it. — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head… — Deborah Priya Henry Copy Share Image
