Time Quote by Diane Setterfield

“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold!”

— William Shakespeare

“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory; and it…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in…

— George Eliot

“Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses, and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a…

— Paul Collins

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

— Alexander Pope

We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce…

— Daniel Webster

“Everything in Tom's cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design,…

— Ken Follett

“The place had a feeling unlike any other she'd visited. There were no altars nor golden trim, but for the first time in her…

— Jay Kristoff

“The glory of heaven deepened and darkened around the sublime vulgarity of man;”

— G.K. Chesterton