Thomas Adam (1701–1784) clergyman, religious writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 582.
“Keep passing the open windows.”
— John Irving, book The Hotel New Hampshire
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
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“Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them.”
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk
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.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
The Windows http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=137&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: It will be a great relief when a window opens.<br>But the windows are not there to be found —<br>or at least I cannot find them. And perhaps<br>it is better that I don’t find them.<br>Perhaps the light will prove another tyranny.<br>Who knows what new things it will expose?
“I would not open windows into men's souls.”
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
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
“Please come back soon. The window is always open.”
Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity
Source: Code Name Verity
“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Source: Jayber Crow
“Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.”
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) American poet
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.”
John Greenleaf Whittier My Psalm
My Psalm, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)