Stair Quotes
More Stair Quotes
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Lean on a garden urn Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
— 1917 Prufrock and Other Observations,'La Figlia Che Piange'.
Who says that fictions onlyand false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
George Herbert— 'Jordan (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).
Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stair, or courts; but standst an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while.
Ben Jonson— 1616 The Forest,'To Penshurst'.
Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.
Samuel Pepys— 1666 Diary entry, 2 Sep.The Great Fire of London continued for four days, destroying four-fifths of the total area of the city.
Her mouth Was roses gather'd from the south, The warm south side of Paradise, And breathed upon and handed down, By angels on a stair of stars.
joaquin miller— IV, p. 28. (The Ship in the Desert (1875))
Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.
joaquin miller— "The Larger College".
Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air, His very foot has music in 't, As he comes up the stair.
william julius mickle— William Julius Mickle, Ballad of Cumnor Hall, Mariner's Wife. Attributed also to Jean Adam, evidence in favor of Mickle. Claimed also for McPherson as a Manuscript copy was found among his papers after his death.
When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.
Kate Bush— In YouTube video a song written for the soundtrack of The Magician of Lublin (1979), based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Leopards on the gable-ends, Leopards on the painted stair, Stiff the blazoned shield they bear, Or and gules, a bend of vair, Leopards on the gable-ends, Leopards everywhere.
— Vita Sackville-West, "Leopards at Knole", Collected Poems (1933), p. 143
Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.
— Michael Angelo, Sonnet LXIII, After Sunset
A sinning nun, her face in a plate of cakes, caught my eye as I descended on the moving stair.
— Penniless in Park Lane
