vacancy quotes

At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

-John Ciardi
  'In Place of a Curse'.

A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.

-Walter de la Mare
  'The Ghost'.

You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. 863

-John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces (published1980), ch.9, pt.1. 4

Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreamscan breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man My haunt, and the main region of my song.

-William Wordsworth
  'The Excursion', preface, l.35^41.