gates quotes

   Lift up your heads,O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The L strong and mighty, the L mighty in battle.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 24:7^8.

And thegates of it shall not be shut at all byday: for there shall be no night there.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 21:25.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

-William Blake
  The Gates of Paradise, prologue.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Prufrock and Other Observations,'Morning at The Window'.

Theyare our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  On railway termini. Howards End, ch.2.

Their lot forbad: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined: Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.

-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.65^8.

It was one of those sequestered spots outside the gates of the world.

-Thomas Hardy
  The Woodlanders, ch.1.

From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast, Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host, Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Alleluia!

-WilliamWalsham How
  'For  All the Saints', in Earl Nelson Hymns for Saints' Days.

Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.

- Margaret Laurence
  The Stone Angel, ch.4.

   How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

-John Lyly
  Of the lark. Campaspe, act 5, sc.1.

Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

- Andrew Marvell
c.1650^1652  'To His Coy Mistress' (published1681), closing lines.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.629^32.

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my cann, Come saddle my horses, and call up my man; Come open your gates, and let me gae free, I daurna stay langer in Bonny Dundee!

- Sir Walter Scott
  Rob Roy, ch.23.

   Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in.

- Edmund Spenser
  Epithalamion, section12.