“The world is a bell that is cracked: it clatters, but does not ring out clearly.”

“Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”

“Hear the mellow wedding bells
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!”

“Ring them bells Sweet Martha
For the poor man's son
Ring them bells so the world will know
That God is one
Oh the shepherd is asleep
Where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with lost sheep.”

“Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”

“Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music…”

“The little White Chapel
Is ringing its bell
With a ring-a-ding-dong,
All day long”

“I'm not saying alarm bells are ringing at this moment in time.”

“A poem, a genuine one, does not need to fear the world; it stands up to it, even when a bell rings and an unexpected guest arrives to tell us, while the same coffee is still in our cups, of his fourteen years in captivity…”

“I met a girl, snowball in hell she was hard and as cracked as the liberty bell.<BR”