Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 582.
“Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them.”
As quoted in Zen to Go (1989) by Jon Winokur, p. 126
Context: Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
“It will be a great relief when a window opens.”
The Windows http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=137&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
Context: It will be a great relief when a window opens.
But the windows are not there to be found —
or at least I cannot find them. And perhaps
it is better that I don’t find them.
Perhaps the light will prove another tyranny.
Who knows what new things it will expose?
“I would not open windows into men's souls.”
Oral tradition, possibly originating in a letter drafted for her by Francis Bacon. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nkJad0EYVxIC&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.co,/books?id=0yA-MQLwOtEC&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false
“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
Source: Jayber Crow
“Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.”
Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World
Source: Collected Poems, 1943-2004
Context: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys,
And spirited from sleep, the astounded soul
Hangs for a moment bodiless and simple
As false dawn.
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
My Psalm, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
