Plato
Philosopher
"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul"
Secret Places quotes
Secret Places
40 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Wordsworth
Poet
"The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me."
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"Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes."
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"Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love."
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"Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place."
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"He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life."
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"I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate."
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"Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it."
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