Famous quotes containing the words castle and/or history:
“Let me be at the place of the castle.
Let the castle be within me.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set in. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)