The mind innocent and quite will take it as a hermitage.
2006-11-10 23:15:18 · 5 answers · asked by shane F 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Hi Shane F.
I don't think you've got the quote quite right.
I think the full quotation you mean is as follows,
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
This from "To Althea - From Prison" by Richard Lovelace, an English poet (1618-1657)
2006-11-10 23:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Richard Lovelace:
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage
2006-11-11 07:24:06 · answer #2 · answered by Dravos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David Wheldon
2006-11-11 08:01:24 · answer #3 · answered by spider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure and so am going to leave it somewhat open but narrowed to a certain area.
I think it was one of the great poets of the Transcendentalist Movement...Thoureau? Emerson? Whitman? Tennyson or T.S. Elliot?
Or maybe Shakespeare.....?
Whoever said it had a thoughtful mind...
2006-11-11 07:34:20 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure....Jonathan Williams maybe or William Makepeace Thackeray. just two guesses!!
2006-11-11 07:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by tool0216 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋