haven quotes

The haven from sophistications and contentions Leaks through its thatch; He offers succulent cooking; The door has a creaking latch.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.10.

In our lore, the Jewish family was an inviolate haven against every formof menace, frompersonal isolationto gentile hostility. Regardless of internal friction and strife, it was assumed to be an indissoluble consolidation† Family indivisibility, the first commandment.

- Philip Milton Roth
  The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography,'Dear Zuckerman'.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

- Morley Safer
  In 60 Minutes, CBS TV broadcast,15 Sep.

And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Break, Break, Break', stanza 3.

  Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.

- Charles Wesley
  'InTemptation', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.