Closest Quote by William Cowper

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

— Marianne Moore

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

— Victor Hugo

“A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practised in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again…

— Barry Fetter

We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond…

— Seal

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

— Arthur Koestler

“Time unslid the knot of any last ribbon of tension.”

— C.S. Pacat

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, &…

— Edith Wharton

... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

— Dervla Murphy

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

— Cooper Edens

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Flux heightens is into knots of staid tension.”

— A.R. Ammons

Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves…

— Jo Baker