Quotes About Looms

The world is a fabric we weave daily on the great looms of information, discussions, films, books, gossip, little anecdotes.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

Time has a texture. Each period of waiting looms its own design. For Abigail, this one was shot through with golden threads. -Those Who Love, p. 130

Your nobility looms up like a high mountain, Too high for others to attain to; But they may breathe the rare fragrance That your soul imparts.

It's the stars that are imprisoned in their own power, and they cannot really help us. They merely design the nets, and on cosmic looms they weave the warp thread that we must complete with our own weft.

“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ramís horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.