boundaries quotes

Ireland is one of the few countriesperhaps the lastwhere the boundaries between politics and art have never been fixed.

- George Dangerfield
  The Strange Death of Liberal England.

L |' si vedra'   la superbia ch'asseta, che fa lo Scotto e l'Inghilese folle, s |' che non puo'   soffrir dentro a sua meta. There shall you see the pride which causes thirst, which makes the Scots and the English mad, so that they cannot remain within their boundaries.

-Dante Alighieri originally Durante
c.1320  Divina Commedia,'Paradiso', canto1, l.121^3.

You would not find out the boundaries of the soul, even by travelling along every path: so deepa measure doesit have.

-Heraclitus   fl.500
c.500  BC   Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds)  The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6.

  You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

- Damien Hirst
  Quoted on www.bbc.co.uk, 20 Sep.

But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

- LarryJeff McMurtry
  Some Can Whistle, pt.4, ch.9.

That false secondary power By which we multiply distinctions, then Deem that our puny boundaries are things That we perceive, and not that we have made.

-William Wordsworth
^1805  The Prelude, bk.2, l.216^19 (published1850).