For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts. Malcolm Lowry
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall. Matthew Arnold
I thought of how people are like planets-lonely little forts of mind with immense black distance barring them off from each other. Fritz Leiber
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. Derek Walcott
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. Rabih Alameddine