John Angell James (1785–1859) British abolitionist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 564.
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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Awakened
Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Lev Shestov (1866–1938) Russian theologian
Dostoievsky’s barrack vows of “improvement” now appeared to him as a sacrilege. He experience which he underwent was much the same as Luther’s when he remembered with such unfeigned horror and disgust the vows which he had pronounced on entering the convent. P. 10
Source: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, The Conquest of the Self-Evident; Dostoievsky’s Philosophy
“The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ
Source: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 18
“Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
Context: The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision's greatest enemy.
Thine has a great hook nose like thine;
Mine has a snub nose like to mine.
Thine is the Friend of all Mankind;
Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
Thine loves the same world that mine hates;
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Letter (April 1851)
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer
"O To Be A Dragon" in O To Be A Dragon (1957)
Poetry