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    Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

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His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the read more

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

by Gaston Bachelard Found in: Home Quotes,
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Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

by Sarah Ban Breathnach Found in: Home Quotes,
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When the hornet hangs in the holly hock,
And the brown bee drones i' the rose,
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When the hornet hangs in the holly hock,
And the brown bee drones i' the rose,
And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,
And summer is near its close--
It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;
And dusk, and dew, and home again!

by Madison Julius Cawein Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

by Robert Frost Found in: Home Quotes,
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"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.

"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.

by Helen Rowland Found in: Home Quotes,
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Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

by Madison Julius Cawein Found in: Home Quotes,
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What's the good of a home if you are never in it?

What's the good of a home if you are never in it?

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