Moors Quotes - Page 3

• Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

  John Masefield

  Sunset, Dawn, Spain

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
  As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Night, Grieving

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• What is that song they are singing Is it an old Yorkshire ditty you know like that 'On Ilkley Moor Bar T'at' " Ruby said "Nah it's a football song. It goes 'We hate Chelsea we hate Chelsea we are the Chelsea haters.

  Louise Rennison

  Football, Song, Hate

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• I stepped closer still. He closed his eyes again and covered my hand with his own. 'You smell of violets. You always smell of violets,' he said. 'You've no idea how many times I have walked these moors and smelled them and thought you were near. On and on I walked, following the scent of you, and you were never there. When I saw you in the hall tonight, I thought I had finally gone mad.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Eye, Hands, Ideas

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.37, MIRA

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• They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Sea, Wind, Sun

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• I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

  Penelope Wilton

  Book, Journey, Great Journeys

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• It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

  Joanne Froggatt

  House, Parent, Height

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• I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Two, Beast

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [117]

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• I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

  Laurie R. King

  Jamaica, Wife, Bedroom

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