Quote by Wilfred Owen

“The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower; And swing I know not where. Their tongues engrave Membrane through marrow, my long-scattered…

— Hart Crane

“Around them, sky and air wove the ancient song of the meeting place of earth and sea—wave-rush on the shore, gulls mewing and sobbing.…

— Harper Fox

“What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle Can patter…

— Wilfred Owen

“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -…

— Joseph Conrad

“Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is…

— Washington Irving

“The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all…

— John Taylor Gatto

The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it…

— Peter Medawar

“Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass in a splendour of power, with a sound like thunder shaking the orchards, waking the young from…

— Judith Wright

“But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently.”

— Susanna Clarke

“and the bells kept on tolling, tolling as they gathered,”

— Patricia Bray

“To count a few gulls makes the journey happy. In the reedy bend, under the willow bank, My wife and children smile with me.…

— Wu Cheng-en

“Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once.”

— Barbara Kingsolver