nave quotes

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of his abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

- Baron Douglas-Home
In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC  T V programme,1982.

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'A High-Toned Old ChristianWoman'.