Retreatin Quotes & Sayings

Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries. — Osbert Sitwell

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. — Henry Home

Who knows what we all are before anything happens? — Emma Donoghue

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak. — Martin Heidegger

I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined. — Carolyn Ives Gilman

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu