roofs quotes

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors. The north is thinethere hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

-William Blake
  Poetical Sketches,'To Winter'.

   Underall theroofs ofthis distracted City isthenodus of a drama, not untragical, crowding towards solution.

-Thomas Carlyle
  History of the French Revolution, vol.1, bk.5, ch.6.

Now we lament one Who danced on a plume of words, Sang with a fountain's panache, Dazzled like slate roofs in sun After rain, was flighty as birds And alone as a mountain ash. The ribald, inspired urchin Leaning over the lip Of his world, as over a rock pool Or a lucky dip, Found everything brilliant and virgin.

- Cecil Day-Lewis
  'In Memory of Dylan Thomas'.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section 52.