“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
My Psalm, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slave… 1807–1892Related quotes
“Got my window open wide
Got a good woman by my side”
"Something Good This Way Comes"
Seeing Things (2008)
Context: Got my window open wide
Got a good woman by my side
I got a good woman by my side 'Cause I know
Something good this way comes.
“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
Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 81, p. 505
Closing words, p. 554.
A Soldier's Story (1951)
Context: A canvas map lay under my helmet with its four silver stars. Only five years before on May 7, as a lieutenant colonel in civilian clothes, I had ridden a bus down Connecticut Avenue to my desk in the old Munitions building. I opened the mapboard and smoothed out the tabs of the 43 divisions now under my command. They stretched across a 640-mile front of the 12th Army Group. With a china-marking pencil, I wrote in the new date: D plus 335. I walked to the window and ripped open the blackout blinds. Outside the sun was climbing into the sky. The war in Europe had ended.
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
“I could never throw Love out of the window.”