Frank Crane: Quotes about heart

“The human heart to youth is a fairy-land of adventure, to old age it is a sitting room where one knows his way in the dark.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Youth , Age , Way , Heart

“The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

World , Hell , Heart

“The human heart is a lonely lane in the evening, and two lovers are walking down it, whispering and lingering.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Lovers , Heart

“The human heart is a band playing in a park at a distance; we see the crowds listening, but we catch but fragments of the music now and again, and cannot make out the tune.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Music , Heart

“The human heart is a great city, teeming with myriad people, full of business and mighty doings, and we wander its crowded streets unutterably alone; we do not know what it is all about.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

People , Business , Heart

“The human heart is an undiscovered country; men and women are forever perishing as they explore its wilds.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Women , Men , Heart , Country

“The human heart is a wide moor under a dull sky, with voices of invisible birds calling in the distance.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Bird , Heart

“The human heart is a great green tree, and many strange birds come and sing in its branches; a few build nests, but most are from far lands north and south, and never come again.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Bird , Tree , Singing , Heart

“The human heart is a tangled wood wherein no man knows his way.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Way , Heart

“The human heart is a cup of love, where some find life and zest, and some drunkenness and death.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Love , Life , Death , Heart

“The human heart is a meadow full of fireflies, a summer western sky of shimmering distant lightnings, a shore set round with flashing lighthouses, far-away voices calling that we cannot understand.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Understanding , Distant , Heart , Summer

“The human heart is a deep still pool; in it are fishes of gold and silver, darting playfully, and slow-heaving slimy monsters, and tarnished treasure hoards, the infinite animalcular life; but when you look down at it you see but your own reflected face.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Life , Fish , Heart

“The human heart is a garden, wherein grow weeds of memory and blooms of hope, and the snow falls at last and covers all.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Hope , Memory , Heart

“The human heart is the throne of God, the council-chamber of the devil, the dwelling of angels, the vile heath of witches' Sabbaths, the nursery of sweet children, the blood-spattered scene of nameless tragedies.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

God , Children , Angels , Heart

“The human heart is a roaring forge where night and day the smiths are busy fashioning swords and silver cups, mitres and engine-wheels, the tools of *labor, and the gauds of precedence.”

Frank Crane

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

Fashion , Business , Heart , Night