Stair Quotes 

Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise, And we shall be lifted, rejoicing by night, Till we join with the planets who choir their delight. The signs in the streets and the signs in the skies Shall make a new Zodiac, guiding the wise, And Broadway make one with that marvelous stair That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.
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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'.

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   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).

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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'.

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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.

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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))

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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".

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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.

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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

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The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Banares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms , temples , stair flights, rich and stately palaces...soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.


— Mark Twain, in Archive for poetry (Quotes)

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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

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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

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A sinning nun, her face in a plate of cakes, caught my eye as I descended on the moving stair.


— Penniless in Park Lane

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