Altars Quote by Sylvia Plath

“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

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the…

— Alfred Austin

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

— Farley Mowat

“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

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and…

— Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

— Francis Bacon

“Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into…

— Erik Pevernagie

We travel through the dark of the moon whenever… we face the loss of that form which has given our life a structure and…

— Demetra George

“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We…

— Okakura Kakuzo

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of…

— Marcel Proust

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

— William Shakespeare

Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its…

— William Morris