“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art. George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron)
“Dayadhvam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison. T. S. Eliot
“I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me. Boris Pasternak
“In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me… and asked me in a whisper… “Can you describe this?” And I said: “I can.”Anna Akhmatova
“I have discovered that most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them. William Carlos Williams