An account of it would have been thought fabulous, were not the Wall itself extant.

-Addison,Joseph
  Commenting on the Great  Wall of China, The Spectator, no.415, 26  Jun.

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  'There is a Green Hill Far  Away'

There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

-Bee, Barnard Elliot
Of General Thomas  J  Jackson, whose resistance stopped the Union advance at Bull Run, 21  Jul. Quoted in B Perley Poore Perley's Reminiscences (1886), vol.2, ch.7.'Stonewall Jackson' became a popular nickname for the General.

The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  John Piper.

So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard thesound of thetrumpet, and the peopleshouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 90

-Bible (Old Testament)
Joshua 6:20.

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms18:29.

In the same hourcame forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Daniel 5:5.

Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied.

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatic Lyrics,'The Pied Piper of Hamlin'.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass.

-Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir
  The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

Oh, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all! The heaped-up sods upon the fire, The pile of turf against the wall! To have a clock with weights and chains And pendulum swinging up and down, A dresser filled with shining delph, Speckled and white and blue and brown!

-Colum, Padraic
c.1907  'An Old Woman of the Roads'.

Such were the numbers which could call The stones into theTheban wall. Such miracles are ceased, and now we see No towns or houses raised by poetry.

-Cowley, Abraham
  Poems,'Ode: Of  Wit'.

Soit donc que vous composiez, soit donc que vous jouiez, ne pensez non plus au spectateur que s'il n'existait pas. Imaginez sur le bord du the¤  a"  tre, un grand mur qui vous se¤  pare du parterre; jouez comme si la toile ne se levait pas. Whether you compose or act, think no more of the spectator than if he did not exist. Imagine at the edge of the stage a large wall which separates you from the orchestra; act as if the curtain never rose.

-Diderot, Denis
  Discours sur la poe¤  sie dramatique, introducing the theatrical concept of the'fourth wall'.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  North of Boston,'Mending Wall'.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  North of Boston,'Mending Wall'.

Never tell me that not one star of all That slip from heaven at night and softly fall Has been picked up with stones to build a wall.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'A Star in a Stoneboat'.

I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ
On visiting Pittsburgh's Polish^Czech area. Quoted in  Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

Wehavenever had toput awall up tokeep our peoplein, to prevent them from leaving us.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
   Address in Berlin's Rudolf  Wilde Platz, 26  Jun, 22 months after the erection of the wall dividing the city.

If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking inthestreet, Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Puck of Pook's Hill,'Smuggler's Song'.

An'see the deid come loupin'owre The auld grey wa's.

-Grieve
  Sangschaw,'Crowdieknowe', stanza1.

Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

-McKay, Claude originally Festus Claudius
  Harlem Shadows,'If  We Must Die'.