Beat Quote by Gregory Corso

“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…

— wildbow

“Intense sunlight rained down on a half-submerged city. Waves crashed between buildings that stood like waterlogged tombstones. Skyscrapers of smashed glass and twisted rusting…

— Kev Heritage

“For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over…

— Wallace Stegner

“Bridges are built by words, thoughts, feelings and deeds. Art and love bring them all together...”

— Mykyta Isagulov

“They spotted another ruin in the late afternoon, this one just a huge, partial circle of metal standing on its side, mounted in a…

— Martha Wells

“A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.”

— Anthony Liccione

“in the strange dizziness of that moment, the statue every man eventually erects and that hardens in the fire of the years, into which…

— Albert Camus

“Lines written for a thirtieth wedding anniversary Somewhere up in the eaves it began: high in the roof – in a sort of vault…

— Eavan Boland

“A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are…

— Penelope Lively

“A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the curious ability to remind us - like rock and sunlight and…

— Edward Abbey "Desert Solitaire

We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

“Tradition spoke of an elegant half-arch being only a fallen pile of stones without its counterpart to make it whole.”

— Mercedes Lackey