The Gist of Art Joan Sloan, New York: Artist Group, 1939, p. 220
The Gist of Art (1939)
“To look back is to relax one's vigil.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
The Lonely Life http://books.google.com/books?id=iyNaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22To+look+back+is+to+relax+one's+vigil%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage (1962)
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Entre le joueur du matin et le joueur du soir il existe la différence qui distingue le mari nonchalant de l'amant pâmé sous les fenêtres de sa belle.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
“A face at the window,
A tap on the pane;
Who is it that wants me
To-night in the rain?”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) American poet
The Messenger at Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" Tree at My Window http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tree-at-my-window-2/" (1928) <br class="br">1920s
“Please come back soon. The window is always open.”
Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity
Source: Code Name Verity
“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Source: The Complete English Poems
“Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis.”
James Joyce book Dubliners
"The Sisters"
Dubliners (1914)
Context: Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.
