Age Quote by Alfred Austin

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled…

— Sylvia Plath

The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic,…

— Rose Macaulay

Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind…

— Gary Snyder

“I am convinced that poets are toddlers in a cathedral, slobbering on wooden blocks and piling them up in the light of the stained…

— Andrew Peterson

“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs…

— Frank Herbert

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a…

— Eckhart Tolle

“All these my exaltation of mind has borne along with it and kept alive through the succession of the years, while all around them…

— Marcel Proust

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall…

— Petrarch

It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation…

— Timothy Dwight V

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust