Acres Quote by Keith Preston

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Quick, where is the Red Cross God with the ointment and plaster the needle and thread and the clean linen bandages to mummify our…

— Janet Frame

Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty…

— John Evelyn

“Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it…

— Isak Dinesen

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“And it was this: raze to the ground the mausoleum you have just started building for the bones of your ancestors and your descendants…

— Kamila Shamsie

Unanswered prayers of lowly birth/On wings of folly round the earth/Illusion clouds the eyes that raise/To the emerald gods they praise.

— Kate Miller

“...stooping very low, He engraves with care His Name, indelible, upon our dust; And from the ashes of our self-despair, Kindles a flame of…

— Patricia St. John

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“More recently, some of us have been able to infiltrate the new ethereal-wave system that now encircles the globe, and to travel around that…

— Margaret Atwood

Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The temple of art is built in words.

— Anonymous