Clubs Quote by William Cowper

We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And…

— Emily Dickinson

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,…

— Washington Irving

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments.…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Silver. Hoards and hoards of silver, lining all the walls, piled as jewelry and cutlery on the ground, spilling out as coins and necklaces…

— E.M. Knight

“Taut, merry, nervous, expertly mounted, exquisitely clothed, haughty in their bright youth, the chevaliers of France poured from the disheveled clearing. Sunlit, all that…

— Dorothy Dunnett

We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago…

— Spike Milligan

“Mercury. Lead. Antimony. A cresent moon sits at the nape of her neck; and Egyptian ankh near her collarbone. There are other symbols as…

— Erin Morgenstern

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“The shape of remembrance etched in the body's exertion, first leaf, then foliage. Even the cathedral with an empty backyard at night clad in…

— Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered…

— Ambrose Bierce

“What a lot of graves there are laid out as far as the eye can see!. Their headstones are like hands raised in surrender,…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove…

— Walter Scott