compulsion quotes

   'Alas!'said she,'we ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion!'

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'The Three Graves', pt.4, stanza12.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

-John Milton
  Arcades.

Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

-A'Ghobhainn
  'Poem of Lewis'.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urgethat impelswomento cleanhouse in the middle of the night.

-James Grover Thurber
  Alarms and Diversions,'There's A Time For Flags'.