Ancient Quote by Wallace Stevens

“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

“The poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped…

— Charles Dickens

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be…

— Henry Fielding

“The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now some days afterwards, when the…

— Bram Stoker

“The unhappy priest was breathing hard; sincere horror at the foreseen dispersal of Church property was linked with regret at his having lost control…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“O the sad frugality of the middle-income mind. O the humorless neatness of an intellectuality which buys mass-produced candlesticks and carefully puts one at…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“The silver trumpets rang across the Dome; The people knelt upon the ground with awe; And borne upon the necks of men I saw,…

— Oscar Wilde

“A small brazier glowed near the monk's left hand. On a lecturn before him lay pots of paints, brushes, a quill, a pen, a…

— Diana Norman

“At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is one of…

— Ernst Jünger

“The little prince, who was present at the first appearance of a huge bud, felt at once that some sort of miraculous apparition must…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tears on the mauseoleum floor. Blood stains the coliseum doors. Lies on the lips of a priest. Thanksgiving disguised as a feast.

— Jay-Z

“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