Pent Quotes

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
'Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories. See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me. It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road, But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode. View quote
Ani DiFranco
I marvel'd how Man, by his GOD-sent wit, Thus tam'd the salamander Element And loos'd the Metal in the mountain pent To make us Saws, and Shears, and useful Plows, Swords for our hands, and Helmets for our brows, The surgeon's Scalpel, vehicle of Health, And all our humble Tools for gaining wealth... ”De Arte Munificente,” Seventeenth century. View quote
John Brunner
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities, if it were not for my passion for art. View quote
Edmonia Lewis
The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides -and try to understand why he must do so. If his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven. View quote
John Keats
I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out of my writing. When I begin to work, it's like a soda bottle that's been jostled before it's opened. There's a lot of pent up energy in there. I have to let it out slowly, carefully, so that I can turn it into a written work. View quote
David B. Coe
We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us. View quote
William McDonough
Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. View quote
James Montgomery
Political self-government, central and local, was an English invention, imported into Scotland by the Grey Ministry, but intensely popular in spite of its foreign origin. Although in temper, creed and outlook on life the Scottish people were less submissive than the English, the civil institutions of their country contained in 1830 no elements of popular election such as always existed here and there in the south of the island. There was no safety-valve for all that pent energy. The Reform Bill, in England an evolution, in Scotland was a revolution, veiled in form of law, and the passions aroused over it had been proportionately more fierce. View quote
G. M. Trevelyan
To one who has been long in city pent, ‘Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, -to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career, He mourns that day so soon has glided by: E'en like the passage of an angel's tear That falls through the clear ether silently. (John Keats)